Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity
By (Author) Shelley E. Garrigan
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st May 2012
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Ethnic studies
Museology and heritage studies
History of art
972
Physical Properties
Paperback
216
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 20mm
Description
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 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.
Author Bio
Shelley E. Garrigan is assistant professor of Spanish at North Carolina State University.
