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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Table of Contents:
- Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910)
- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum
- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial
- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889
- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.