Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture /

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Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernández, María, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Mexican.
Eclecticism in art.
Eclecticism in architecture.
Art, Mexican > Themes, motives.
Architecture > Themes, motives.
ART > Caribbean & Latin American.
ART > History > General.
Mexicains.
Éclectisme en architecture > Mexique.
Éclectisme dans l'art > Mexique.
Architecture > Mexique > Themes, motifs.
Art mexicain > Themes, motifs.
Eclecticism in architecture > Mexico.
Eclecticism in art > Mexico.
Architecture > Mexico > Themes, motives.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Vernacular cosmopolitanism : Sigüenza y Góngora's Teatro de virtudes políticas
  • Castas, monstrous bodies, and soft buildings
  • Experiments in the representation of national identity : the Pavilion of Mexico in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and the Palacio de Bellas Artes
  • Of ruins and ghosts : the social functions of pre-Hispanic antiquity in nineteenth-century Mexico
  • Traces of the past : reevaluating eclecticism in nineteenth-century Mexican architecture
  • Visualizing the future : estridentismo, technology, and art
  • Re-creating the past : Ignacio Marquina's reconstruction of the Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan
  • Transnational culture at the end of the millennium : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "relational architectures."

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