Internal Landscapes and Obscure Melodies: The Stridentist Image

Abstract

The article reviews Stridentism’s technical reflections, especially Germán List Arzubide’s “Conference on the Stridentist Movement”. This text, although sometimes referred to as one of the theoretical writings of the movement, has not been studied in detail. List Arzubide, along with Arqueles Vela and Manuel Maples Arce, argued for the poetic image and metaphor as constitutive elements of Stridentist art. The importance they attributed to these elements allows us to connect the poetics of the Mexican school with other contemporary movements, reconsider the historicity of the categories, and observe the tense relationship between opposing directions within the same Stridentist aesthetic.

Keywords: avant-garde, metaphor, image, Stridentism