Figure 4. Manuel Maples Arce, Actual No

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TitleActual No. 1 (recto)

Creator nameArce, Manuel Maples

Creator nationality/cultureMexican

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1921

Creation date (description)December 1921

Object typePeriodical

MaterialsUnknown

Dimensions23 1/16 x 15 3/4 in. (59.5 x 40 cm)

LocationMuseo Nacional de Arte / INBA, Mexico City

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsWords in artBroadsidesArt manifestos

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1. The Manifesto

Tatiana Flores

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

In the final days of December 1921, Manuel Maples Arce, a twenty-one-year-old law-student-cum-poet, rebelled. His radical and subversive act consisted of plastering the walls of Mexico City in the dead of night with an avant-garde manifesto. Actual No. 1 (figs. 4 and 5) resembled newspapers with blaring headlines and competed in the crowded urban arena with sundry advertisements for bullfights, cigarettes, and concerts. Its bold typography was intended to capture the attention of pedestrians, …

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Tatiana Flores

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-47

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00083.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15116&redirecttoanchor=15070

Chapter subject tags:Art, Mexican--20th centuryAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaMaples Arce, Manuel, 1900-1981Art manifestosMexico--History--Revolution, 1923-1924

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