Intersected identities : strategies of visualisation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexican culture /
Segre, Erica.
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-308) and index.
Introduction : a tradition of intersections? Interdisciplinary slippages, borrowings and collaborations in Mexican visual culture -- The development of costumbrista : iconography and nation-building strategies in literary periodicals of the mid-nineteenth century -- An italicised ethnicity : memory, renascence and visuality in the literary writings of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano -- Visualising Mexico : the interplay of graphic arts and film in the 1930s and 1940s -- Reframing the city : images of displacement in urban films and the visual arts of the 1940s and 1950s -- Allegory, self-reflexivity and irony : a photographic genealogy -- The poetics of skin : surface and inscription in contemporary photography -- The hermeneutics of the veil in photography : of rebozos, sábanas, huipiles and lienzos de Verónica -- Relics and disjecta in modernism and post-modernism : a comparative study of archaeology in contemporary photography and multimedia art.
Arts, Mexican
Arts, Mexican
Arts and society
Visual communication.
National characteristics, Mexican.