Buenos Aires Across the Arts - Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

An In-Depth Analysis of Cultural Modernity and Urban Space across Artistic Disciplines in 1920s and 1930s Argentina

About the author

Eleni Kefala is senior lecturer at the University of St Andrews. Her work explores modernity across different periods and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. She is the author of The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity and Peripheral (Post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris, and Kyriakidis, and editor of Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From Conquest to Globalisation.

Summary

Analyses artistic works across disciplines with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Eleni Kefala
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780822946922
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4692-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Pitt Illuminations
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies