Figure 1. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vectorial Elevation, Relational...

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Description: Vectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture 4

TitleVectorial Elevation, Relational Architecture 4

Creator nameLozano-Hemmer, Rafael

Creator nationality/cultureMexican

Creator roleArtist

Creation date2000

Object typePerformance Art

MaterialsXenon 7kW robotic searchlights, four webcambs, Linux servers, GPS, Java 3D DMX interface

DimensionsUnknown

LocationZócalo Square, Mexico City

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsLight in artInstallations (Art)Plaza de la Constitución (Mexico City, Mexico)

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Introduction

Tatiana Flores

Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30–30!

Mexico’s first self-acknowledged avant-garde movement, Estridentismo (stridentism), erupted in 1921 with the distribution of the explosive manifesto Actual No. 1 by the poet Manuel Maples Arce (1898–1981) in Mexico City. Riddled with insults for the literary establishment and the bourgeoisie, the manifesto set forth an aesthetic plan to renovate jaded artistic conventions and overturn the status quo, replacing the lyrical aesthetic that had dominated the Mexican arts with a dissonant artistic …

Author

Tatiana Flores

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-15

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00083.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15115&redirecttoanchor=15067

Chapter subject tags:Art, Mexican--20th centuryAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaBolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael

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