From reading Gruzinski on CDMX I realized that these Latvian artists who remind me of Mexican modernists may have been under direct influence of them. Eisenstein (¡Que viva México!) was of course captivated by it and was not just “Soviet” but Latvian, and many other Soviet artists congregated there in those days. How many brought the influence home to the Baltics, or sent it there? (There is also of course the Mexican interest in Constructivism, and so on, but I’m particularly interested in the way ethnic identity and modernity and modernization are conjugated in the Baltics, in painting and poetry too.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 