Collecting Mexico

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Author: Shelley E. GarriganISBN: 9780816670932Publisher: University of Minnesota PressYear first published: 01 May 2012Pages: 216 Format: Paperback / softbackCollecting Mexico cent ers on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Shelley E. Garrigan approaches questions of origin, citizenry, membership, and difference by reconstructing the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated. In doing so, she arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force. Show more