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Cosmopolitanism in Mexican visual culture

Fernández, María, 1956-

Cosmopolitanism in Mexican visual culture [electronic resource] / by María Fernández. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vernacular cosmopolitanism: Sigüenza y Góngora's Teatro de virtudes políticas -- Castas, monstrous bodies, and soft buildings -- Experiments in the representation of national identity: the Pavilion of Mexico in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and the Palacio de Bellas Artes -- Of ruins and ghosts: the social functions of pre-Hispanic antiquity in nineteenth-century Mexico -- Traces of the past: reevaluating eclecticism in nineteenth-century Mexican architecture -- Visualizing the future: estridentismo, technology, and art -- Re-creating the past: Ignacio Marquina's reconstruction of the Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan -- Transnational culture at the end of the millennium: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "relational architectures".

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National characteristics, Mexican.
Eclecticism in architecture--Mexico.
Eclecticism in art--Mexico.
Architecture--Themes, motives.--Mexico
Art, Mexican--Themes, motives.


Electronic books.

N6550 / .F47 2013

709.72