The vital intensity of the last stridentist

Abstract

Stridentism is the Avant-Garde movement that compiles the longing for social vindication of the post-revolutionary Mexico. Germán List Arzubide (protagonist of Stridentist group) describes the dynamic and ephemeral Mexican Avant-garde movement –due its short life span– through the memorable and enjoyable pages of the book: El movimiento estridentista. He is also the visionary editor of the group, with the establishment and management of the magazines Ser, in Puebla, and Horizonte, in Xalapa, which is the Stridentopolis envisioned by the Stridentists. Throughout his life, List Arzubide took ownership and promoted the transformative tendencies of the moment that placed the group in its social, ethical and communion concerns with the impatience derived from the Revolution. This text recounts List Arzubide's socio-pedagogical work through social theater and puppetry; his bold artistic contributions; his didactic, political and creative vocations. A vital expense of rebellion, as it was always defined, List Arzubide is an example of the integral revolutionist, of the form and the poetic thing, packed between the social battle and the new aesthetics that the 20th century enacted.