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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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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
, 2012
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttswrj |
| Related Items: | Print version:
Collecting Mexico |
| Author Notes: | Shelley E. Garrigan |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| 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 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780816670925 0816680159 0816670935 0816670927 9780816670932 9780816680153 |
