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Intersected Identities : Strategies of Visualisation in 19th and 20th Century Mexican Culture / Erica Segre.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Remapping Cultural History ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800735101
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.972 22
LOC classification:
  • NX514.A1
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Tradition of Intersections? Interdisciplinary Slippages, Borrowings and Collaborations in Mexican Visual Culture -- Chapter 1 The Development of Costumbrista: Iconography and Nation-building Strategies in Literary Periodicals of the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2 An Italicised Ethnicity: Memory, Renascence and Visuality in the Literary Writings of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano -- Chapter 3 Visualising Mexico: The Interplay of Graphic Arts and Film in the 1930s and 1940s -- Chapter 4 Reframing the City: Images of Displacement in Urban Films and the Visual Arts of the 1940s and 1950s -- Chapter 5 Allegory, Self-Reflexivity and Irony: A Photographic Genealogy -- Chapter 6 The Poetics of Skin: Surface and Inscription in Contemporary Photography -- Chapter 7 The Hermeneutics of the Veil in Photography: Of Rebozos, Sábanas, Huipiles and Lienzos de Verónica -- Chapter 8 Relics and Disjecta in Modernism and Post-Modernism: A Comparative Study of Archaeology in Contemporary Photography and Multimedia Art -- Bibliography -- INDEX
Summary: There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present – from the vogue for the picturesque, illustrated periodicals and the influential writings of Altamirano to a wealth of twentieth-century graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers – this book re-examines the complex variety of ways in which that visual element has operated. In particular, it looks at the ways in which discourses concerning ethnicity and cultural hybridity have been echoed and transformed in Mexican visual culture, resulting in fields of visual discourse which are eclectic and increasingly self-reflexive.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Tradition of Intersections? Interdisciplinary Slippages, Borrowings and Collaborations in Mexican Visual Culture -- Chapter 1 The Development of Costumbrista: Iconography and Nation-building Strategies in Literary Periodicals of the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2 An Italicised Ethnicity: Memory, Renascence and Visuality in the Literary Writings of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano -- Chapter 3 Visualising Mexico: The Interplay of Graphic Arts and Film in the 1930s and 1940s -- Chapter 4 Reframing the City: Images of Displacement in Urban Films and the Visual Arts of the 1940s and 1950s -- Chapter 5 Allegory, Self-Reflexivity and Irony: A Photographic Genealogy -- Chapter 6 The Poetics of Skin: Surface and Inscription in Contemporary Photography -- Chapter 7 The Hermeneutics of the Veil in Photography: Of Rebozos, Sábanas, Huipiles and Lienzos de Verónica -- Chapter 8 Relics and Disjecta in Modernism and Post-Modernism: A Comparative Study of Archaeology in Contemporary Photography and Multimedia Art -- Bibliography -- INDEX

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There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present – from the vogue for the picturesque, illustrated periodicals and the influential writings of Altamirano to a wealth of twentieth-century graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers – this book re-examines the complex variety of ways in which that visual element has operated. In particular, it looks at the ways in which discourses concerning ethnicity and cultural hybridity have been echoed and transformed in Mexican visual culture, resulting in fields of visual discourse which are eclectic and increasingly self-reflexive.

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