Indian Women on Market Day

Despite Estridentismo’s departure from Mexico City, an anti-academic attitude remained entrenched in the arts during the second half of the 1920s. It was manifested through publications such as El Machete, the organ of the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors and later of the Communist Party, which wed art and social action; Forma, the cultural magazine edited by Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, which promoted a side-by-side comparison of traditional Mexican arts and visual culture …