Intersected identities
Subtitle: strategies of visualisation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexican culture
By: Erica Segre.
Series: Remapping cultural history
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845452919
Subjects: Arts, Mexican -- 19th century; Arts, Mexican -- 20th century; Arts and society -- Mexico; Visual communication; National characteristics, Mexican
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a tradition of intersections? Interdisciplinary slippages, borrowings and collaborations in Mexican visual culture; title: The development of costumbrista : iconography and nation-building strategies in literary periodicals of the mid-nineteenth century; title: An italicised ethnicity : memory, renascence and visuality in the literary writings of Ignacio Manuel Altamirano; title: Visualising Mexico : the interplay of graphic arts and film in the 1930s and 1940s; title: Reframing the city : images of displacement in urban films and the visual arts of the 1940s and 1950s; title: Allegory, self-reflexivity and irony : a photographic genealogy; title: The poetics of skin : surface and inscription in contemporary photography; title: The hermeneutics of the veil in photography : of rebozos, sabanas, huipiles and lienzos de Veronica; title: Relics and disjecta in modernism and post-modernism : a comparative study of archaeology in contemporary photography and multimedia art.