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Collecting Mexico : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity /

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 reconstructs the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garrigan, Shelley E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 reconstructs the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated, demonstrating the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780816680153
0816680159
0816670927
9780816670925
0816670935
9780816670932
9781452947143
1452947147