Lopez Rick A. Lopez

Crafting Mexico (eBook, PDF)

Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

After Mexico's revolution of 1910-1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country's diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an "e;ethnicized"e; interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich history, Rick A. Lopez explains how thinkers and artists, including the anthropologist Manuel Gamio, the composer Carlos Chavez, the educator Moises Saenz, the painter Diego Rivera, and many less-known figures, formulated and promoted a notion of nationhood in which previously denigrated vernacular arts-dance, music, and handicrafts such as textiles, basketry, ceramics, wooden toys, and ritual masks-came to be seen as symbolic of Mexico's modernity and national distinctiveness. Lopez examines how the nationalist project intersected with transnational intellectual and artistic currents, as well as how it was adapted in rural communities. He provides an in-depth account of artisanal practices in the village of Olinala, located in the mountainous southern state of Guerrero. Since the 1920s, Olinala has been renowned for its lacquered boxes and gourds, which have been considered to be among the "e;most Mexican"e; of the nation's arts. Crafting Mexico illuminates the role of cultural politics and visual production in Mexico's transformation from a regionally and culturally fragmented country into a modern nation-state with an inclusive and compelling national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391739
• Artikelnr.: 54814033

Autorenporträt

Rick A. López

Inhaltsangabe

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