1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812910003321

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

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".

Sommario/riassunto

Since the colonial era, Mexican art has emerged from an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global, which frequently involves invention, synthesis, and transformation of diverse discursive and artistic traditions. In this pathfinding book, María Fernández uses the concept of cosmopolitanism to explore this important aspect of Mexican art, in which visual culture and power relations unite the local and the global, the national and the international, the universal and the particular. She argues that in



Mexico, as in other colonized regions, colonization constructed power dynamics and forms of violence that persisted in the independent nation-state. Accordingly, Fernández presents not only the visual qualities of objects, but also the discourses, ideas, desires, and practices that are fundamental to the very existence of visual objects. Fernández organizes episodes in the history of Mexican art and architecture, ranging from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century, around the consistent but unacknowledged historical theme of cosmopolitanism, allowing readers to discern relationships among various historical periods and works that are new and yet simultaneously dependent on their predecessors. She uses case studies of art and architecture produced in response to government commissions to demonstrate that established visual forms and meanings in Mexican art reflect and inform desires, expectations, memories, and ways of being in the world—in short, that visual culture and cosmopolitanism are fundamental to processes of subjectification and identity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910261142203321

Autore

Janin Riedelsberger

Titolo

Roots - The Hidden Provider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Botany & plant sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOMIL0183086

Autore

Comporti, Marco

Titolo

8.1: Diritti reali in generale / Marco Comporti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : A. Giuffrè, 1980

ISBN

8814058547

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 270 p. ; 25 cm.

Classificazione

II A 3

Disciplina

346

346.04

Collocazione

TRA       31                      TRADDC

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia