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: 9780816670932

ISBN-10: 0816670935

ISBN-13: 9780816670932

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: $25.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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



Introduction



Fine Art and Demand: Debating the Mexican National Canon, 1876-1910



Our Archaeology: Science, Citizenry, Patrimony, and the Museum



The Hidden Lives of Historical Monuments: Commerce, Fashion, and Memorial



Collections at the World's Fair: Rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889



Collecting Numbers: Statistics and the Constructive Force of Deficiency


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index