dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
verfasserin/verfasser: Anita Brenner
titel: Idols Behind Altars. Modern Mexican Art and its Cultural Roots
isbn: 0-486-42303-4
+: Reprint Mineola, NY, 2002 of: New York : Payson & Clarke 1929
«There is a frayed philosophical idea according to which revolutions occur when 'the people' live under conditions of great and increasing hardship; and a more modern but also skin-deep notion that revolutions are made by agitators and propaganda. But the facts of this century of revolution throw into clear relief another and much more decisive element: the consciousness that sets people moving against the status quo; the realization that one doesn't have toaccept oppression or humiliation, that there is an alternative. And that this alternative is within one's reach.
[…] In Mexico, the railroads, the telegraph, the newspapers, the influx of American capital, and the rising number of people moving back and forth brought an increasing (almost day-to-day) vomparison between life for the people in the United States and life here. This was the gunpowder and the match.» (Introduction, s.p.)