Arts visuels et stridentisme dans la revue mexicaine Irradiador (1923)

Abstract

This article concerns Stridentism, the Mexican avant-garde movement created by Manuel Maples Arce at the beginning of the 1920s. Lasting only a few years, his movement was marked by the appearance of the Irradiador review, cofounded with the Mexican mural painter Fermin Revueltas in 1923. Those interested by Stridentism regretted that this review remained missing during the 20th century. The teacher and researcher Evodio Escalante found a copy by chance and published it in facsimile in 2012 at Iztapalapa University (UAM) under the title Irradiador. Revista de vanguardia. This recent edition of Irradiador gives us the occasion to return to the movement via the analysis of all three monthly issues –September, October and November 1923. In the light of the images published in its pages, we ask what is the relationship with modernity of this review which, from the title page onwards, presents itself as the « international projector of a new aesthetic ».

Keywords

• Mexico
• avant-garde
• Irradiador
• stridentism
• reviews