Title Resurrecting Tenochtitlan : imagining the Aztec capital in modern Mexico City / Delia Cosentino and Adriana Zavala

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. Contents Imagining Tenochtitlan -- Archaeologists set the stage -- The civic art of early maps -- Picturing the capital, integrating the nation -- The perfect Tenochtitlan -- Mexico City : yesterday, today, and always -- Tenochtitlan restaged Summary "Resurrecting Tenochtitlan considers the ways in which artists, city planners, architects, and intellectuals in Mexico shaped the evolution of Mexico City's civic identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Long forgotten and assumed to have been completely destroyed during the Spanish conquest, layers of the remnants of Tenochtitlan were discovered in the middle of a drainage project augmented under the longtime president Porfirio Díaz. As the cityscape changed in the wake of the ends of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution, the city's layers of history were uncovered to find the remnants of the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan, which stirred imaginings of a new and modern Mexican capital and nation that still drew from its ancient history. Tying the modern city to the ancient one was also a way in which intellectuals articulated a mestizo cultural identity. This discovery led to the renewed interest in 16th-century maps by artists, architects, and city planners to understand the ways in which the Aztec capital intersected with the beginnings of Spanish settlement over it. The manuscript examines how artists such as Juan O'Gorman and Diego Rivera drew from the recent work of archaeologists to render panoramic depictions of both the modern Mexican and the Aztec capital to visualize it for public audiences. And while not strictly chronological in its organization, it looks at how attitudes toward modern Mexico City's ties to Tenochtitlan shaped national identity and shifted over time. The authors' timeframe ends with the inauguration of Diego Rivera's long-planned Anahuacalli Museum, which was created with the support of the National Museum of Anthropology to display pre-Columbian artifacts. Its completion, after Rivera's death, was met with the first waves of the youth cultures in Mexico whose disinterest in and suspicion toward state-sponsored national projects signaled the beginning of the collapse of these ideas"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 17, 2023) Subject Aztecs -- Antiquities -- History -- 20th century -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Mexico City National characteristics, Mexican, in art -- History -- 20th century Archaeology -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 20th century ART / General Archaeology Intellectual life National characteristics, Mexican, in art SUBJECT Mexico City (Mexico) -- Antiquities -- History -- 20th century -- Social aspects Mexico City (Mexico) -- In art -- History -- 20th century Mexico City (Mexico) -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century Subject Mexico -- Mexico City Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Zavala, Adriana, author. LC no. 2022020202 ISBN 9781477327005 1477327002

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