Collecting Mexico [[electronic resource] ] : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / / Shelley E. Garrigan

• Autore: Garrigan Shelley E
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 972
• Soggetto topico: Cultural property - Social aspects - Mexico; Exhibitions - Mexico - History - 19th century; Museums - Social aspects - Mexico; National characteristics, Mexican
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico Antiquities Social aspects; Mexico Cultural policy History 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Collecting Mexico centers 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Collecting Mexico
• ISBN: 1-4529-4714-7; 0-8166-8015-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790287203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II