Tensiones y debates en torno al arte de México en la revista cubana Social

Abstract

The text addresses the role played by the Cuban magazine Social during the 20s of the twentieth century in the dissemination of Mexican art as a paradigm of avant-garde and nationalism in Latin America. The magazine, as an active device and generator of critical positions, exposed the diverse debates and intellectual positions of its time, becoming a source of significant value for the recovery of a complex cultural history. It is presented as a methodological alternative for the investigation of Latin American and Caribbean artistic culture based on the recognition of links between the countries of the region. The case study demonstrates that journals constitute a significant and contributing material due to the immediacy and timeliness of their publication, their scope and resonances as part of a context of changes that modernity imposed and shows that cultural relations open paths of renewal for the historiography or the Latin American avant-garde and their respective dynamics.