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Consuming Surrealism in Modern Mexican Advertising : = Remedios Varo's Pharmaceutical Illustrations for Casa Bayer, S.A.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Consuming Surrealism in Modern Mexican Advertising :/
Reminder of title:	Remedios Varo's Pharmaceutical Illustrations for Casa Bayer, S.A.
Author:	Pucci, Alicia M.
Description:	1 online resource (112 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International58-01(E).
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438308503

Consuming Surrealism in Modern Mexican Advertising : = Remedios Varo's Pharmaceutical Illustrations for Casa Bayer, S.A.
Pucci, Alicia M.

Consuming Surrealism in Modern Mexican Advertising :Remedios Varo's Pharmaceutical Illustrations for Casa Bayer, S.A. - 1 online resource (112 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--Temple University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

My thesis investigates an interdisciplinary narrative of the transatlantic migration of Surrealism to Mexico during the 1940s. I focus on the ways exiled European Surrealists approached notions of Mexican material culture in a hybrid society where local traditions coexisted with a global modernity. Looking to popular and print culture outlets, I concentrate on how Mexican material culture was perceived, promoted, and marketed through a Surrealist lens. Specifically, I consider the collaboration of the German pharmaceutical company Casa Bayer, S.A. and exiled Spanish-born Surrealist Remedios Varo, who produced a series of medical advertisements during her first decade in Mexico City from 1943 to 1949. Through an examination of Varo's work, my thesis explores the changing boundaries of fine and commercial art that resulted from the efforts of artists who participated in modern mass culture and consumerism. I investigate the significance of her Surrealist advertisements for Casa Bayer as a material culture bound on one side with fine art and the other side with the development of Mexican advertising. This case study supports my argument that Surrealism, as a transnational aesthetic, was one alternative way of demonstrating the new cultural meanings of advertising in an ambiguous, modern Mexican society. Examining Varo's illustrations in light of the movement of western Europeans to Mexico and the country's commitment to modern progress explains why the artist negotiated her past avant-garde sensibilities with her Mexican present.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438308503Subjects--Topical Terms:

1180038
Art history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Consuming Surrealism in Modern Mexican Advertising : = Remedios Varo's Pharmaceutical Illustrations for Casa Bayer, S.A.
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