Analysis Of Manuel Maples Arce's Manifesto

The manifestos, “A Strident Prescription penned by Manuel Maples Arce” (Ades), along with “Three Appeals for a Modern Direction to the New Generation of American Painters and Sculptors” (Ades), and “Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters, and Sculptors” (Frank), all struggle with the notion that there are new ideals that are merging with the traditional. There are different ways that the conflict in this movement is solved depending on the manifesto. This movement the manifestos are describing parallel with the Mexican Revolution. In the “Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters, and Sculptors” (Frank), the writer is completely for the traditional way the culture has presented itself through
This quote alone sums up the idea that art in this era is struggling between two worlds. In this manifest it is much clearer that those two worlds are aesthetically pleasing or thought provoking and spiritualistic. This manifesto makes the revolution more about the nature versus machine rather than the workers versus the bourgeois. The difference between this manifesto and the last is the solution for the apparent problem in the revolution. This approach is laid out as “Impose aesthetic limits” to “No more retrospection. No more futurism” (Ades). Rather than going back to the traditional ways of the art that came before and rather than embracing the aesthetic qualities that are described as being machine-like the writer proposes that this be a new approach. In the “Three Appeals for a Modern Direction to the New Generation of American Painters and Sculptors” (Ades) manifesto the writer at first seems to be completely for the modern machine era. The over enthusiastic style in which he is writing is borderline satirical and the solution is the give away that this revolution of the aesthetic style is not one that is favored but this writer. The solution that this manifesto has aligns with the one of the first manifesto