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Urbe: super-poema bolchevique en 5 cantos (Urbe: Bolshevik Super-poem in 5 Parts)

Author Manuel Maples Arce Mexican
Publisher Andrés Botas e Hijo Mexican
1924
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Manuel Maples Arce was the leader of Estridentismo (Stridentism), one of Mexico’s first avant-garde movements of writers and artists, and Charlot was closely associated with it. In Urbe, Maples Arce’s most celebrated book of poetry, he married Stridentism and socialist politics. Charlot’s illustrations interpret the verse through solid and austere designs and recognizable icons of modernity (ocean liner, train, skyscraper). The Stridentists employed woodcut as a vanguard means of expression to promote aspects of postrevolutionary life.





Manuel Maples Arce fue el líder del estridentismo, uno de los primeros movimientos de vanguardia de escritores y artistas de México, con el que Jean Charlot tuvo un estrecho vínculo. Urbe fue el libro de poesía más célebre de Maples Arce, que combinó en esta obra el estridentismo y la política socialista. Las ilustraciones de Charlot, con un diseño sólido y austero, interpretan los poemas por medio de iconos reconocibles de la modernidad (un trasatlántico, un tren, un rascacielos). Los estridentistas emplearon la xilografía como medio de expresión de vanguardia para promocionar aspectos de la vida posrevolucionaria.

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  • Title: Urbe: super-poema bolchevique en 5 cantos (Urbe: Bolshevik Super-poem in 5 Parts)
  • Author: Manuel Maples Arce (Mexican, Papantla 1898–1980 Mexico City)
  • Artist: Jean Charlot (French, Paris 1898–1979 Honolulu, Hawaii)
  • Publisher: Andrés Botas e Hijo
  • Date: 1924
  • Medium: Woodcut illustrations
  • Dimensions: 9 1/16 × 6 11/16 in. (23 × 17 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1931
  • Object Number: 31.91.1
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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