La era de la discrepancia
Subtitle: arte y cultura visual en México, 1968-1997
By: con textos de Olivier Debroise  ...  [et al.] ; editado por Olivier Debroise = The age of discrepancies : art and visual culture in Mexico, 1968-1997 / with essays by Olivier Debroise ... [et al.] ; edited by Olivier Debroise.
Contributors: Debroise, Olivier.; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Turner
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Mexico City]
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9789703238293
Subjects: Arts, Mexican -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Age of discrepancies
Description: "The first exhibition to offer a critical assessment of the artistic experimentation that took place in Mexico during the last three decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition carefully analyzes the origins and emergence of techniques, strategies, andmodes of operation at a particularly significant moment of Mexican history, beginning with the 1968 Student Movement, until the Zapatista upraising in the State of Chiapas. Theshow includes work by a wide range of artists, including Francis Alys, Vicente Rojo, Jimmie Durham, Helen Escobedo, Julio Galán, Felipe Ehrenberg, José Bedia,Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Amorales, Melanie Smith, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, among many others. The edition is illustrated with 612 full-colorplates of the art produced during these last three decades of the twentieth century reflect the social, political and technical developments in Mexico and ranged from painting andphotography to poster design, installation, performance, experimental theatre, super-8 cinema, video, music, poetry and popular culture like the films and ephemeral actionsof 'Panic' by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Friedeberg's pop art, the conceptual art, infrarrealists and urban independent photography, artists books, the development ofcontemporary political photography, the participation of Mexican artists in Fluxus in the seventies and the contribution of Ulises Carrión to the international artist book movement and popular rock music, the pictorial battles of the eighties and the emergence of a variant of neo-conceptual art in 1990. The exhibition is curated by Olivier Debroise, Pilar García de Germenos, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón"--Provided by vendor.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held Feb. 24-Sept. 30, 2007, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Spanish and English.