The avant-garde in the architecture and visual arts of Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Commenting on an exhibition of contemporary Mexican architecture in Rome in 1957, the polemic and highly influential Italian architectural critic and historian, Bruno Zevi, ridiculed Mexican modernism for combining Pre-Columbian motifs with modern architecture. He referred to it as ‘Mexican Grotesqu...
Main Author: | Fernando N. Winfield |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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UCL Press
2012-10-01
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Series: | Architecture_MPS |
Online Access: | https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.amps.2012v1i3.001 |
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