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The Maya of Modernism: Art, Architecture, and Film
Jesse Lerner
From the time when archaeologists first began to discover the civilization's spectacular ruins, Mexico's Mayan past has been a boundless source of inspiration, ideas, and iconography for the modernist imagination. This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery. Beginning his study in the mid-nineteenth century, with the first mechanically reproduced and mass distributed images of the Mayan ruins, and ending with recent works that address this history of representation, Lerner argues that Maya modernism is the product of an ongoing pan-American modernism characterized by a continuing series of reinterpretations, collaborations, and exchanges in which Yucatecans, Mexicans and foreigners, mestizos, Mayas, and others all participate and are free to endorse, misunderstand, reinterpret, or reject each other's ideas.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1: The Vegetative Maya
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Catherwood Revisited
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Photography, Archaeology, and the Maya in the Peninsular Creole Imagination
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Raíces
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Chapter 2: Maya Modernism Without the Maya
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Modernist Primitivism
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Photogravity
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Chapter 3: Progressing Toward a Maya Modernity
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Triumph of the Maya Will
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Maya Blueprints for the Future: Maya Revival Architecture
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Chapter 4: The Aoristic Maya
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Modernism Is Elsewhere
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Racial Memories
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Ecstasy at Izamal: Aoristic Maya Modernism Frustrated
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Chapter 5: The Maya Absolute
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American Origins
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A Fevered Dream of Maya: Robert Stacy-Judd
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Conclusions: Leaving the Ruins of Maya Modernism
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Filmography
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Index
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Published: 2011
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- 9780826349835 (ebook)