%0 Online Resource %0 Book %A Garrigan, Shelley E. %I University of Minnesota Press %D 2012 %C Minneapolis %G English %@ 9780816670925 %@ 0816680159 %@ 0816670935 %@ 0816670927 %@ 9780816670932 %@ 9780816680153 %T Collecting Mexico : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity %U http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttswrj %X 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