Stridentism (Spanish: Estridentismo) was an artistic and multidisciplinary

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movement, founded in

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by Manuel Maples Arce at the end of 1921 but formally developed in

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where all the founders moved after the University of Veracruz granted its support for the movement. Stridentism shares some characteristics with

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and

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, but it developed a specific social dimension, taken from the Mexican Revolution, and a concern for action and its own present. Stridentists were part of the political avant-garde, in contrast to the "elitist" modernism of Los Contemporáneos.

Chronology

1921: Mexico City, December 31, Manuel Maples Arce gives the first

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out. 1923: Maples Arce and List Arzubide give out the second manifesto, in the city of

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. 1923: Irradiador: short-lived journal (September, October, and November of 1923) 1924: First Stridentist Expo, at the "Café de nadie", in Mexico City. 1925: The group moves from Mexico City to

(recreated in their works as "Estridentópolis"). Third manifesto in the city of

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. 1926: Fourth and last manifesto in

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. 1927: The group separates, for political reasons. 1929-1930: A group of stridentists met in

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and participated in the group '' Cercle Et Carre''. 1930: Leopoldo Méndez and

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traveled to the

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. 1932:

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and

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returned to

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from Paris

Artists

Poets: Manuel Maples Arce,

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. Writers/Journalists:

, Carlos Noriega Hope. Visual artists:

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, Leopoldo Méndez,

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, Lola Cueto. Multidisciplinary artists:

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, Gaston Dinner. Musicians:

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, Ángel Salas. Photographers:

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Bibliography

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