Stridentism (estridentismo in Spanish) is the style term used to describe the avant-garde multidisciplinary (visual arts and letters) movement, founded by the poet Manuel Maples Arce (here in a portrait by Leopoldo Méndez, 1927) that took place in Mexico in the 1920s following the Civil War. Sharing many similarities with contemporary European movements —Cubism, Dadaism, Futurism - Stridentism had its own social-action aspect that distinguished it from the better known,"elitist" Modernism of Los Contemporáneos. Lynda Klich describes in detail the movement's ambitious attempt to mould a national and cultural identity.
- Lynda Klich, The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, University of California Press, 360pp, £47, $60 (hb)
