Intersected identities : strategies of visualisation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexican culture / Erica Segre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segre, Erica.

Series:

Remapping cultural history ; v. 5.

Remapping cultural history ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Mexican--19th century.

Arts, Mexican.

Arts, Mexican--20th century.

Arts and society--Mexico.

Arts and society.

Visual communication.

National characteristics, Mexican.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : a tradition of intersections? Interdisciplinary slippages, borrowings and collaborations in Mexican visual culture

The development of costumbrista : iconography and nation-building strategies in literary periodicals of the mid-nineteenth century

An italicised ethnicity : memory, renascence and visuality in the literary writings of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Visualising Mexico : the interplay of graphic arts and film in the 1930s and 1940s

Reframing the city : images of displacement in urban films and the visual arts of the 1940s and 1950s

Allegory, self-reflexivity and irony : a photographic genealogy

The poetics of skin : surface and inscription in contemporary photography

The hermeneutics of the veil in photography : of rebozos, sábanas, huipiles and lienzos de Verónica

Relics and disjecta in modernism and post-modernism : a comparative study of archaeology in contemporary photography and multimedia art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-308) and index.

ISBN:

9781845452919

1845452917

OCLC:

85624060