Collecting Mexico [electronic resource] : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / Shelley E. Garrigan.

9781452947143 (ebook) :

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

1 online resource (233 p.) : ill.

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This title centres on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenth-century Mexico. The book 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, it arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.