![]() In Mexico, the Revolution of 1910–20 was the catalyst for an entirely new movement. In Russia, the Soviet Revolution of 1917 changed the tenor and motivation of an already nascent avant-garde. Often, this stance was further radicalized by historical events and the encroachment of political affiliation. This heady moment, evidenced in both intellectual and popular culture, truly led artists to believe that they were part of a project to both invent a new visual idiom for the modern world and to simultaneously question preexisting ideas of what art could and should be. ![]() The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought modern conveyances in its wake like the automobile, the airplane, and the electric elevator, which went hand-in-hand with steel-and-glass construction in birthing the skyscraper-the emblem of the modern city. ![]() Philosophers like Henri Bergson were expanding and collapsing our concept of time, and Sigmund Freud’s theories were opening new paths to uncharted segments of the human mind. ![]() When the twentieth century arrived, artists had every reason to believe that they were entering a totally new and unique modern age. ![]()
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