Border Spaces Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Frontera / edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and John-Michael H. Warner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morrissey, Katherine G., editor.

Warner, John-Michael H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018

Summary:

The built environment along the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a hotbed of political and creative action. In this volume, the historically tense region and visually provocative margin--the southwestern United States and northern Mexico--take center stage. From the borderlands perspective, the symbolic importance and visual impact of border spaces resonate deeply. In Border Spaces, Katherine G. Morrissey, John-Michael H. Warner, and other essayists build on the insights of border dwellers, or fronterizos, and draw on two interrelated fields--border art history and border studies. The editors engage in a conversation on the physical landscape of the border and its representations through time, art, and architecture. The volume is divided into two linked sections--one on border histories of built environments and the second on border art histories. Each section begins with a "conversation" essay--co-authored by two leading interdisciplinary scholars in the relevant fields--that weaves together the book's thematic questions with the ideas and essays to follow. Border Spaces is prompted by art and grounded in an academy ready to consider the connections between art, land, and people in a binational region.

Contents:

Introduction. Border dynamics : visible meanings along the U.S.-Mexico line

Katherine G. Morrissey and john-Michael H. Warner

part I. 1. A conversation on border landscapes through time / Samuel Truett and Maribel Alvarez

2. Monuments, photographs, and maps : visualizing the U.S.-Mexico border in the 1890s / Katherine G. Morrissey

3. Fencing the line : race, environment, and the changing visual landscape at the U.S.-Mexico divide / Mary E. Mendoza

4. Open border : the national press and the promotion of transnational commerce, 1940-1965 / Geraldo Luján Cadava

part II. 5. A conversation on border art and spaces / Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui and Sarah J. Moore

6. Stealth crossings : performance art and games of power on the militarized border / Ila N. Sheren

7. How the border wall became a canvas : political art in the U.S.-Mexico border towns of Ambos Nogales / Margaret Regan

8. Visible frictions : the border film project and self-representation in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Rebecca M. Schreiber

9. A border art history of the vanishing present : land use and representation / John-Michael H. Warner.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3821-2

OCLC:

1020627067