Turner/UNAM

The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1968-1997

Edited by Olivier Debroise. Text by Olivier Debroise, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Alvaro Vazquez Mantecón.

This survey of artistic experimentation in late twentieth-century Mexico assesses fields as diverse as painting, photography, poster design, installation, performance, experimental theater, Super-8 film, video, music, poetry and popular culture. It also attempts--in what may be an experimental work itself--to recreate ephemeral works, insofar as possible, with the support of the artists. The three tumultuous decades between 1968 and 1997 saw the end of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) in a violent final phase that began with the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre--which brutally crushed the student movement of 1968--and ended with the crises that followed the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. The Age of Discrepancies is the first visual history to cover this exceptional period, and to propose a genealogy for the work that emerged from it, which is increasingly valued worldwide.

PUBLISHED BY: Turner/UNAM
LIST PRICE: US $ 65 CAN $ 78
FORMAT: Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 469 pgs / 900 color.
ISBN: 9789689056003 / ISBN10: 968905600X
PUBLICATION DATE: 03/01/2007
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