Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity

by Shelley E. Garrigan

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816670935
• ISBN13: 9780816670932
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"