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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464334503321

Autore

Fernández María <1956->

Titolo

Cosmopolitanism in Mexican visual culture / / by María Fernández

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-292-74536-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Collana

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Disciplina

709.72

Soggetti

Art, Mexican - Themes, motives

Architecture - Mexico - Themes, motives

Eclecticism in art - Mexico

Eclecticism in architecture - Mexico

National characteristics, Mexican

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Vernacular cosmopolitanism: Sigüenza y Góngora's Teatro de virtudes políticas -- Castas, monstrous bodies, and soft buildings -- Experiments in the representation of national identity: the Pavilion of Mexico in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and the Palacio de Bellas Artes -- Of ruins and ghosts: the social functions of pre-Hispanic antiquity in nineteenth-century Mexico -- Traces of the past: reevaluating eclecticism in nineteenth-century Mexican architecture -- Visualizing the future: estridentismo, technology, and art -- Re-creating the past: Ignacio Marquina's reconstruction of the Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan -- Transnational culture at the end of the millennium: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "relational architectures".