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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816680153 0816680159 0816670927 9780816670925 0816670935 9780816670932 9781452947143 1452947147 |