Source: WTL photograph© at the Special Exhibition of "Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910 - 1950," at the Philadelphia Art Museum, December 13, 2016.
Image: "Actual No. 1," a 1921 broadsheet written by Manuel Maples Arce (1898-1981).
Comments: As politics and cultures around the world sought to cope with the implications and aftermath of World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, and a myriad of social changes, intellectuals promulgated their individual programs of action, resulting in a myriad of movements each with their own 'isms. Maples manifesto led to the creation of estridentismo (Stridentism). His broadsheet is one such example, which he posted in December, 1921. In the original it contained 14 points, each headed by a Roman numeral. In this broadsheet Maples issued an urgent call to writers and artists to reject a return to traditional Mexican (local color, tourist-centered) cultures, and rather to explore the cultural chaos created by modern urban life and technology. Mexican Stridentism, which shared traits with Cubism, Swiss and French Dadaism, Russian and Italian Futurism, and South American ultraísmo, lasted, essentially, from 1921 to 1933.
Humanities Questions: (A) What sort of "humanities artifact" do you think this could be? (B) In what way is it related to the image in #18 (<= Modern Mexican Art #18)?