The Academy of San Carolos and Mexican Art History: Politics, History, and Art in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

by Ray Hernandez-Duran

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a symptom of the development of modern museum practice in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico City. Also an intellectual history, this study recognizes the role of nationalism in the initiation of art historical practice in what is understood today more broadly as Latin America. Although there has been a steady...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409434125
• ISBN13: 9781409434122
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages