Modernism's Ruins: Appropriations of Ancient Mesoamerica

Modernism's Ruins: Appropriations of Ancient Mesoamerica in Museum Lecture Hall at The Getty Center


Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker and writer Jesse Lerner— whose films have been shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum—discusses the persistence of ancient Mexican visual culture in the modern imagination and as a theme that runs through his work.