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What is the name of the 1920s avant-garde movement founded by Manuel Maples Arce, which combined futurist typography, urban imagery and radical politics into manifestos and poetry that celebrated the machine age?

Estridentismo was the Mexican response to Italian Futurism and Dada, centered in Xalapa in the 1920s, producing experimental poetry, radio broadcasts and a magazine called 'Irradiador'.

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