Collecting Mexico : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / Shelley E. Garrigan.
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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| Language: | English |
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| 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 |
| Access: | Access to electronic resources restricted to Simmons University students, faculty and staff. |