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

ISBN-13: 9780367736712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Ray Hernandez-Duran

Opis

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

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Contents:

Chapter One

A Historiography of Colonial Art in Mexico: Problems, Context, and Developments

Chapter Two

Locating a Colonial Past in the Nation’s Memory: The Politics of Making History

Chapter Three

The Academy of San Carlos and the Old Mexican School: Collecting and Displaying Colonial Painting

Chapter Four

Writing a History of Art in Mexico: From Spectacular Verses to Rational Texts

Chapter Five

Concluding Remarks: Contested Ground

O autorze

Ray Hernández-Durán completed his B.A. and B.F.A. at the University of Texas at Austin, his M.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He teaches the history of colonial Ibero-American arts and architecture at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.