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The present catalogue features the rich and plural creative alternatives that Mexican artists and intellectuals used to express the modernist trends and paradigms that emerged and flourished in Post-Revolutionary Mexico. "Between the industrialization and the nostalgia for the field and rural towns, between the electrical illumination of large cities and the fear of what mechanized power represented, between science and superstition, a narrative in the fields of literature and plastic arts emerged; forms of progress and the force of the State had their weight amongst intellectuals and artists, whom built a different country and critically distanced themselves from fashionable ideals" (Our translation) --Pages 11. Includes works by David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl", Jorge González Camarena and Ramón Alva de la Canal, amongst other artists and authors. The book was the outcome of the seminar "Seminario de Arte Moderno" an academic event organized for the last three years that included the collaboration between the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas and the Posgraduate Course in Art History in the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).