Estridentismo

"Stridentism", influenced by many trends as the most important, the Italian Futurism, was an artistic and multidisciplinary avant-garde movement, founded in Mexico City at the end of 1921 by Manuel Maples Arce.
Stridentism (1921-1927 when the group separates, for political reasons) shared some characteristics with Cubism, Dadaism, Futurism and Ultraism, but developed a specific social dimension, taken from the Mexican Revolution.

Manuel Maples Arce (May 1, 1900 - June 26, 1981) was a Mexican poet, writer, art critic and collector, lawyer and diplomat. He began his volumes of poetry with epigraphs and his literary movement with manifestoes.

In 1976, the young writer Roberto Bolaño did an interview with this avant-gardist poet who appears as a character in Bolaño's novel Los detectives salvajes (1998).

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”L’estridentismo non é una scuola, nè una tendenza, nè una mafia come quelle che qui vanno di moda; l'Estridentismo é una ragione di strategia. Un gesto. Un irruzione”
Manuel Maples Arce -1923

"cancion de cuna" by mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas

Strident  
A. − [En parlant d'un son]: Qui est à la fois aigu et intense...
B. − P. méton. Qui émet un son intense; qui s'accompagne d'un tel son.  
C. − PHONÉT. Consonne stridente. Consonne caractérisée, en opposition aux consonnes mates, par la présence dans son spectre acoustique d'un bruit d'intensité particulièrement élevé et par une répartition irrégulière de l'intensité...
source CNRTL

 
 

& about the Mexican Painter Ramon Alva de la Canal (1892-1985), one of the pioneers of the "Mexican muralism" movement, who was also part of the stridentism,
look at the second part of the documentary  "Ramon Alva de la Canal y el Estridentismo"
 
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