Spectacular Modernities: Buenos Aires Across the Arts, 1921-1939

《壮观的现代性：布宜诺斯艾利斯跨越艺术，1921-1939》通过研究两次世界大战期间布宜诺斯艾利斯这座标志性城市的主要代表，探索后殖民时代城市现代性的错综复杂，这些代表来自许多艺术学科(诗歌、小说、绘画、故事片、纪录片、音乐、摄影)。到20世纪20年代，来自欧洲的大量移民将布宜诺斯艾利斯变成了拉丁美洲最大、最国际化的城市中心，并引发了一系列令人头疼的社会政治、意识形态和文化问题，占据了当时政客、知识分子和艺术家的头脑。该项目将城市空间作为现代性新现实的认知地图，通过首次将豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯、Xul Solar、奥利维奥·吉隆多和罗伯托·阿尔特以及在英语世界被忽视的重要艺术家何塞·费雷拉和霍拉西奥·科波拉的一些关键作品放在一起，调查现代化和移民如何影响这一时期阿根廷的文化和意识形态意识。该项目探讨了这些作品背后的思想、社会和审美议程，这些作品是为了回应与民族身份、移民、现代化、社会边缘化、乌托邦主义、无政府主义和技术进步等广泛而多样的问题而发展起来的。其目的是为后殖民现代性的不同方面提供新的视角，特别是对阿根廷的城市现代性提供新的视角，同时在城市研究的更广泛的跨学科研究中重新审视拉丁美洲的城市文化。这是关于阿根廷城市现代性的第一部作品，它结合了对不同艺术学科对布宜诺斯艾利斯的主要表现的密切分析，以及利用城市理论和后殖民和去殖民主义研究(拉丁美洲对后殖民理论的反应)以及其他相关理论概念的最新发展，以及来自哲学、建筑、社会学、地理学、符号学、国际研究、文学和文化研究等领域的作品。研究成果将惠及学术界(特别是那些对拉丁美洲研究、城市研究、后殖民/非殖民主义研究、文化史、文化理论和身份研究感兴趣的人)、公共部门和更广泛的公众，包括一本六章的专著(我有一个与德克萨斯大学出版社的提议)，关于两次世界大战期间布宜诺斯艾利斯的国际跨学科会议，在苏格兰国际诗歌节(Stanza)举行的关于20世纪20年代博尔赫斯和民族主义的研讨会，以及费雷拉20世纪20年代电影的英国首映，科波拉摄影作品在英国的首映展发表在_布宜诺斯艾利斯：Una visión Fotográfica_(1936)，这被认为是美洲摄影史上的一个里程碑，以及Xul Solar在20世纪20年代和30年代的迷人画展在苏格兰的首映。由于拉丁美洲独立二百周年庆祝活动仍在进行中，该项目将向拉美世界最具霸权的城市之一致敬，并将为学术界和广大公众提供一个新的概念框架，以了解拉丁美洲城市现代性的复杂性。此外，该项目将使当地博物馆/美术馆和地区社区受益，它将为更广泛的公众提供机会欣赏拉丁美洲一些最非凡的文化成就，它将加强英国和阿根廷博物馆和美术馆之间的关系，并将在英国、美国、加拿大和拉丁美洲建立研究人员合作网络。

"Spectacular Modernities: Buenos Aires Across the Arts, 1921-1939" probes the intricacies of postcolonial urban modernity by studying key representations of the iconic city of Buenos Aires in the interwar period, coming from a number of artistic disciplines (poetry, novel, painting, feature film, documentary, music, photography). By the 1920s, massive immigration from Europe transformed Buenos Aires into the largest and most cosmopolitan urban centre of Latin America, and launched a series of vexed sociopolitical, ideological and cultural issues that occupied the minds of the politicians, intellectuals and artists of the time. The project focuses on urban space as a cognitive map of modernity's new realities and investigates how modernization and immigration impacted Argentina's cultural and ideological consciousness in this period by examining together, for the first time, a number of pivotal works of internationally renowned figures, namely Jorge Luis Borges, Xul Solar, Oliverio Girondo and Roberto Arlt, as well as of important artists who have been neglected in the English-speaking world - José Ferreyra and Horacio Coppola. The project explores the ideological, social and aesthetic agendas that lay behind these works, which developed as a response to a wide and diverse range of questions related to nationhood, immigration, modernization, social marginalization, utopianism, anarchism and technological advancements, among others. Its aim is to cast new light on the contrasting facets of postcolonial modernity and offer fresh perspectives on Argentina's urban modernity in particular, while resituating Latin American urban culture within the wider interdisciplinary research in urban studies. This is the first work on Argentine urban modernity that combines close analyses of major representations of Buenos Aires from different artistic disciplines and a theoretically informed discourse that draws on the latest developments in urban theory and postcolonial and decolonial studies (Latin America's response to postcolonial theories) as well as on other relevant theoretical concepts, some of them contemporary with the works under consideration, coming from the fields of Philosophy, Architecture, Sociology, Geography, Semiotics, International Studies, and Literary and Cultural Studies, among others. The research outputs will benefit both the academic community (in particular, those interested in Latin American studies, urban studies, postcolonial/decolonial studies, cultural history, cultural theory and identity studies), the public sector and the wider general public, with a six-chapter monograph (I have a proposal with Texas University Press), an international interdisciplinary conference on Buenos Aires in the interwar period, a workshop on Borges and nationalism in the 1920s at StAnza (Scotland's international poetry festival), UK premiere screenings of Ferreyra's films of the 1920s, a UK premiere exhibition of Coppola's photographs published in _Buenos Aires: una visión fotográfica_ (1936) which is considered a milestone in the photography of the Americas, and a Scottish premiere exhibition of Xul Solar's fascinating paintings of the 1920s and 1930s. With the bicentenary celebrations of Latin American Independence still underway, this project will pay tribute to one of the most hegemonic cities of the Hispanic world and will provide a new conceptual framework for understanding the complexities of urban modernity in Latin America for academics and the wider public alike. In addition, the project will financially benefit local museums/galleries and regional communities, it will offer the opportunity to the wider public to appreciate some of the most extraordinary cultural accomplishments of Latin America, it will strengthen relationships between museums and galleries in the UK and Argentina, and will build collaborative networks of researchers based in the UK, USA, Canada and Latin America.