Description
Book SynopsisViewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this pathfinding book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.
Trade ReviewThe sweep of Fernández's study is ambitious, and her ability to navigate discourses and archival materials from so many periods and in several languages is impressive. * Latin American Research Review *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Sigüenza y Góngora's Teatro de Virtudes Políticas
- Chapter 2. Castas, Monstrous Bodies, and Soft Buildings
- Chapter 3. Experiments in the Representation of National Identity: The Pavilion of Mexico in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and the Palacio de Bellas Artes
- Chapter 4. Of Ruins and Ghosts: The Social Functions of Pre-Hispanic Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
- Chapter 5. Traces of the Past: Reevaluating Eclecticism in Nineteenth-Century Mexican Architecture
- Chapter 6. Visualizing the Future: Estridentismo, Technology, and Art
- Chapter 7. Re-creating the Past: Ignacio Marquina's Reconstruction of the Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan
- Chapter 8. Transnational Culture at the End of the Millennium: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "Relational Architectures"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
