| Description |
1 online resource (465 pages) |
| Series |
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture |
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Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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| Contents |
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." |
| Summary |
Viewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2013) |
| Subject |
Art, Mexican -- Themes, motives
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Architecture -- Mexico -- Themes, motives
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Eclecticism in art -- Mexico
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Eclecticism in architecture -- Mexico
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National characteristics, Mexican.
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ART -- History -- General.
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ART -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Architecture -- Themes, motives
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Art, Mexican -- Themes, motives
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Eclecticism in architecture
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Eclecticism in art
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National characteristics, Mexican
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780292745360 |
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0292745362 |
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0292745354 |
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9780292745353 |
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