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Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

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Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939 - Kefala, Eleni
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By 1920, Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe. Unbridled urban expansion had drastic effects on the social and cultural topography of the Argentine capital, raising ideological and aesthetic issues that shaped the modernist landscape of the country. Artists across disciplines responded to these changes with conflicting depictions of urban space. Centering these conflicts as a cognitive map of modernity's new realities in the city and in understandings ...

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Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939 2022, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA

ISBN-13: 9780822946922

Hardcover