Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822357810)

In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Z?iga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that culminated in the student protests of 1968. Rendering Z?iga's coming of age on the margins of formal politics, Vaughan depicts midcentury Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity, state largesse, and a vibrant, transnationally-informed public life that produced a multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism of convention. In an analysis encompassing the mass media, schools, politics, family, sexuality, neighborhoods, and friendships, she subtly invokes theories of discourse, phenomenology, and affect to examine the formation of Z?iga's persona in the decades leading up to 1968. By discussing the influences that shaped his worldview, she historicizes the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new perspectives on the events of 1968.


Author: Mary Kay Vaughan
ISBN-10: 082235781X
ISBN-13: 9780822357810
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2014
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d