Collecting Mexico Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity

Name: Collecting Mexico Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity
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ISBN: 9780816670925

ISBN-10: 0816670927

ISBN-13: 9780816670925

Edition: 2012

Authors: Shelley E. Garrigan

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Collecting Mexicocenters on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Shelley E. Garrigan approaches questions of origin, citizenry, membership, and difference by reconstructing the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated. In doing so, she arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force.Spanning the Porfiriato period from 1867 to 1910,Collecting Mexicoilluminates the creation and institutionalization of a Mexican…

Book details

List price: $67.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Shelley E. Garrigan is assistant professor of Spanish at North Carolina State University.