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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454637903321

Autore

Good Carl

Titolo

Effects Of The Nation [[electronic resource] ] : Mexican Art In Age Of Globalization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-04743-4

1-4399-0176-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WaldronJohn

Disciplina

700.972

700/.972/0904

Soggetti

20th century

Art and society

Arts, Mexican

Mexico

National characteristics in art

Arts, Mexican - 20th century - Mexico

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Fine Arts - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Ungoverned Specificities; 1 Mexican Art on Display; 2 Mathias Goeritz: Emotional Architecture and; 3 Corporeal Identities in Mexican Art: Modern and; 4 Elena Poniatowska's Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela:; 5 "Un octubre manchado se detiene": Memory and; 6 Aesthetic Criteria and the Literary Market in Mexico:; 7 Un hogar insólito: Elena Garro and Mexican; 8 René Derouin: Dialogues with Mexico; 9 Unhomely Feminine: Rosina Conde; 10 The Postmodern Hybrid: Do Aliens Dream; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is the effect of a ""nation""? In this age of globalization, is it dead, dying, or only dormant? The essays in this groundbreaking volume use the arts in Mexico to move beyond the national and the global to look at the activity of a community continually re-creating itself within and



beyond its own borders. Mexico is a particularly apt focus, partly because of the vitality of its culture, partly because of its changing political identity, and partly because of the impact of borders and borderlessness on its national character. The ten essays collected here look at a wide rang