Resurrecting Tenochtitlan - Delia Cosentino, Adriana Zavala

Resurrecting Tenochtitlan

Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2023
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2699-2 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
Honorable Mention, ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association of Latin American Art
Finalist, 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association

How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.

After archaeologists rediscovered a corner of the Templo Mayor in 1914, artists, intellectuals, and government officials attempted to revive Tenochtitlan as an instrument for reassessing Mexican national identity in the wake of the Revolution of 1910. What followed was a conceptual excavation of the original Mexica capital in relation to the transforming urban landscape of modern Mexico City.

Revolutionary-era scholars took a renewed interest in sixteenth century maps as they recognized an intersection between Tenochtitlan and the foundation of a Spanish colonial settlement directly over it. Meanwhile, Mexico City developed with modern roads and expanded civic areas as agents of nationalism promoted concepts like indigenismo, the embrace of Indigenous cultural expressions. The promotion of artworks and new architectural projects such as Diego Rivera’s Anahuacalli Museum helped to make real the notion of a modern Tenochtitlan. Employing archival materials, newspaper reports, and art criticism from 1914 to 1964, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan connects art history with urban studies to reveal the construction of a complex physical and cultural layout for Mexico’s modern capital.

Delia Cosentino is an associate professor of Latin American art history at DePaul University. She is the author of Las joyas de Zinacantepec: Arte colonial en el Monasterio de San Miguel and was a guest editor for Artl@s Bulletin’s thematic volume “Cartographic Styles and Discourse.” Adriana Zavala is an associate professor of the history of art and architecture and race, colonialism, and diaspora studies at Tufts University. She is the author of Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Imagining Tenochtitlan
2. Archaeologists Set the Stage
3. The Civic Art of Early Maps
4. Picturing the Capital, Integrating the Nation
5. The Perfect Tenochtitlan
6. Mexico City: Yesterday, Today, and Always
7. Tenochtitlan Restaged
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 64 color and 25 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 1361 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-4773-2699-5 / 1477326995
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-2699-2 / 9781477326992
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