López / Rick A. Lopez Crafting Mexico

Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9173-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 436 Seiten

Examines the role of the vernacular arts in Mexicos transformation from a regionally and culturally fragmented country into a modern nation-state with an inclusive and compelling national identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

López, Rick A.

Rick A. Lopez, Lopez

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Nation Formation, Popular Art, and the Search for a Mexican Aesthetic 1

Part I. Indianness and the Postrevolutionary Mexican Nation 27

1. Ethnicizing the Nation: The India Bonita Contest of 1921 29

2. Popular Art and the Staging of Indianness 65

3. Foreign-Mexican Collaboration, 1920–1940 95

4. The Postrevolutionary Cultural Project, 1916–1938 127

5. The Museum and the Market, 1929–1948 151

6. Formulating a State Policy toward Popular Art, 1937–1974 175

Part II. Alternative Narratives of Metropolitan Intervention: The Artisans of Olinalá, Guerrero 195

7. The "Unbroken Tradition" of Olinalá from the Aztecs through the Revolution 201

8. Transnational Renaissance and Local Power Struggles, 1920s to 1950s 229

9. The Road to Olinalá, 1935–1972 263

Conclusions 289

Notes 299

Bibliography 349

Index 381

Über Autor(innen)

Rick A. López is Associate Professor of History at Amherst College.