Intersected identities : strategies of visualisation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexican culture / Erica Segre.

Author/creator Segre, Erica
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Descriptionxiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesRemapping cultural history ; v. 5
Remapping cultural history ; v. 5. ^A531334
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-308) and index.
LCCN 2007008595
ISBN9781845452919 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1845452917 (hardback : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks NX514.A1 S44 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold