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CREATING PATZCUARO, CREATING MEXICO
ART, TOURISM, AND NATION BUILDING UNDER LAZARO CARDENAS |
| By: |
Jennifer Jolly |
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Hardback |
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£74.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1477314199 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781477314197 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 January, 2018 |
| Pages: |
370 |
| Synopsis: |
In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas transformed a small Michoacan city, Patzcuaro, into a popular center for national tourism. Cardenas commissioned public monuments and archeological excavations; supported new schools, libraries, and a public theater; developed tourism sites and infrastructure, including the Museo de Artes Populares e Industriales; and hired artists to paint murals celebrating regional history, traditions, and culture. The creation of Patzcuaro was formative for Mexico; not only did it provide an early model for regional economic and cultural development, but it also helped establish some of Mexico's most enduring national myths, rituals, and institutions.In Creating Patzcuaro, Creating Mexico, Jennifer Jolly argues that Patzcuaro became a microcosm of cultural power during the 1930s and that we find the foundations of modern Mexico in its creation. Her extensive historical and archival research reveals how Cardenas and the artists and intellectuals who worked with him used cultural patronage as a guise for radical modernization in the region. Jolly demonstrates that the Patzcuaro project helped define a new modern body politic for Mexico, in which the population was asked to emulate Cardenas by touring the country and seeing and embracing its land, history, and people. Ultimately, by offering Mexicans a means to identify and engage with power and privilege, the creation of Patzcuaro placed art and tourism at the center of Mexico's postrevolutionary nation building project. |
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US |
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University of Texas Press |
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