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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrigan, Shelley E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Social aspects--Mexico.

Cultural property.

Exhibitions--Mexico--History--19th century.

Exhibitions.

Museums--Social aspects--Mexico.

Museums.

National characteristics, Mexican.

Mexico--Antiquities--Social aspects.

Mexico.

Mexico--Cultural policy--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4714-7

0-8166-8015-9

OCLC:

792688095