During the 1920s and rsquo;30s; Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectualsmdash;including Orson Welles; Katherine Anne Porter; and Leon Trotskymdash;who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the backdrop of this cosmopolitan milieu; In Excess reconstructs the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film iexcl;Que Viva Mexico! Illuminating the inextricability of Eisensteinrsquo;s oeuvre from the global cultures of modernity and film; Masha Salazkina situates this unfinished project within the twin contexts of postrevolutionary Mexico and the ideas of such contemporaneous thinkers as Walter Benjamin. In doing so; Salazkina explains how Eisensteinrsquo;s engagement with Mexican mythology; politics; and art deeply influenced his ideas; particularly about sexuality. She also uncovers the role Eisensteinrsquo;s bisexuality played in his creative thinking and identifies his use of the baroque as an important turn toward excess and hybrid forms. Beautifully illustrated with rare photographs; In Excess provides the most complete genealogy available of major shifts in this modern masterrsquo;s theories and aesthetics.
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