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La tierra elegida del humor negro. La construcción de México de André Breton

No. 17 (2024-07-31)
  • Tatiana Flores
    University of Virginia, Estados Unidos
    Identificador ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1997-9579
https://doi.org/10.25025/hart17.2024.04

Resumen

Este ensayo analiza la construcción de México como “el lugar surrealista por excelencia” en los escritos de André Breton. Me centro en la afirmación de Breton de que México es “la tierra elegida del humor negro” a través de un análisis de sus fuentes literarias y de su interés por los grabados de José Guadalupe Posada. A continuación, abordo la presentación que Breton hace de México en Francia a través de la exposición Mexique, de 1939, que supuso el debut parisino de Frida Kahlo, y del artículo “Souvenir du Mexique”, publicado en la revista surrealista Minotaure.

Palabras clave: Surrealismo, humor negro, arte mexicano, André Breton, Frida Kahlo, José Guadalupe Posada, exposiciones surrealistas

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