An approach to alternative modernism: Diego Rivera's mexican modernity during his cubist years

• Autores: Kaoru Kato
• Localización: Estudios de arte español y latinoamericano, Nº. 7, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Número conmemorativo del décimo aniversario de la Asociación), págs. 101-109
• Idioma: varios idiomas
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• Resumen

  • The cross cultural discourse around art has been examining what lies beneath the Western Modern Art. Attempts to re-code the modernism are expressed by artists of western colony origin and by scholars who devote themselves in studying the modern art of non-western areas. Therefore, such a trend can be signified as a reflection of post-colonial narratives. However, considering the recent outbreaks which re-examine the modern arts of western peripherals such as old Russia and other ex-eastern block countries, I may embrace the whole discourse as counter-eurocentricism. The term “Alternative Modernism” is adequately applied to distinguish other modernisms from the eurocentric modernism. In the process of revealing the characteristics of Alternative Modernism, several terms such as “modernism”, “modernity” and “modernization” should be defined distinctively.

    discussion is initiated on the modernity of Diego Rivera’s cubist years and how and why his modernity was rejected from the main stream cubism. Special attention is paid to Rivera’s “El guerrillero: paisaje Zapatista”, which confronts severe criticism expressed by French art critics such as Pierre Reverdy and others who believed dominant cubism theory of plascity derived from the avand-garde aesthetics of Europe.