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

“壮观的现代化：《跨越艺术的布宜诺斯艾利斯，1921-1939》通过研究两次世界大战之间标志性城市布宜诺斯艾利斯的主要表现形式，探讨了后殖民城市现代性的复杂性，这些表现形式来自许多艺术学科（诗歌，小说，绘画，故事片，纪录片，音乐，摄影）。到1920年代，来自欧洲的大量移民将布宜诺斯艾利斯变成拉丁美洲最大和最国际化的城市中心，并引发了一系列困扰当时政治家，知识分子和艺术家的社会政治，意识形态和文化问题。该项目的重点是城市空间作为现代性新现实的认知地图，并通过首次共同审查国际知名人物豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯、Xul Solar、Oliverio Girondo和Roberto Arlt的一些关键作品，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，以及在英语世界中被忽视的重要艺术家--何塞·费雷拉和奥拉西奥·科波拉。该项目探讨了这些作品背后的意识形态、社会和美学议程，这些作品是为了回应与国家地位、移民、现代化、社会边缘化、乌托邦、无政府主义和技术进步等有关的广泛而多样的问题而开发的。它的目的是投下新的光在后殖民现代性的对比方面，并提供新的视角，特别是阿根廷的城市现代性，同时resiuting在更广泛的跨学科研究中的城市研究拉丁美洲的城市文化。这是第一部关于阿根廷城市现代性的作品，它结合了对不同艺术学科的布宜诺斯艾利斯主要表现形式的密切分析，以及借鉴城市理论和后殖民和非殖民研究最新发展的理论话语（拉丁美洲对后殖民理论的反应）以及其他相关的理论概念，其中一些与正在审议的作品是同时代的，来自哲学，建筑学，社会学，地理学，符号学，国际研究，文学和文化研究等领域。研究成果将使学术界和（特别是那些对拉丁美洲研究、城市研究、后殖民/非殖民化研究、文化历史、文化理论和特性研究感兴趣的人）、公共部门和广大公众，（我有一个建议与得克萨斯大学出版社），一个国际跨学科会议在布宜诺斯艾利斯在两次世界大战期间，20世纪20年代在Stanza举办的关于博尔赫斯和民族主义的研讨会（苏格兰国际诗歌节）、费雷拉20世纪20年代电影在英国首映、科波拉摄影作品在英国首映展览_布宜诺斯艾利斯：《una dégén fotográfica_》（1936）被认为是美洲摄影的里程碑，以及一场苏格兰首演展，展出了Xul Solar在20世纪20年代和30年代的迷人画作。随着拉丁美洲独立二百周年庆祝活动仍在进行中，该项目将向西班牙裔世界最具霸权的城市之一致敬，并将为学术界和更广泛的公众了解拉丁美洲城市现代性的复杂性提供一个新的概念框架。此外，该项目将在经济上有利于当地博物馆/画廊和区域社区，它将为更广泛的公众提供欣赏拉丁美洲一些最非凡的文化成就的机会，它将加强英国和阿根廷博物馆和画廊之间的关系，并将建立英国，美国，加拿大和拉丁美洲研究人员的合作网络。

"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.