The Maya of Modernism

Art, Architecture, and Film

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by Jesse Lerner

Type

Studies

Subject

General

Keywords

Mexico, national cultures

Publishing date

2011

Publisher

University of New Mexico (UNM) Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 224 pages
6 ½ x 9 ½ inches (16.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-8263-4981-1

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Book Presentation:
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.

See the publisher website: University of New Mexico (UNM) Press