Mexican Costumbrismo : : Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art / / Mey-Yen Moriuchi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Moriuchi, Mey-Yen,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.) :; 31 color/29 b&w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; chapter 1 Racialized Social Spaces in Casta and Costumbrista Painting --; chapter 2 Traveler-Artists’ Visions of Mexico --; chapter 3 Literary Costumbrismo: Celebration and Satire of los tipos populares --; chapter 4 Local Perspectives: Mexican Costumbrista Artists --; chapter 5 Costumbrista Photography --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271081540; 9783110745221
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271081540?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mey-Yen Moriuchi.

The years following Mexican independence in 1821 were critical to the development of social, racial, and national identities. The visual arts played a decisive role in this process of self-definition. Mexican Costumbrismo reorients current understanding of this key period in the history of Mexican art by focusing on a distinctive genre of painting that emerged between 1821 and 1890: costumbrismo.In contrast to the neoclassical work favored by the Mexican academy, costumbrista artists portrayed the "idian lives of the lower to middle classes, their clothes, food, dwellings, and occupations. Based on observations of similitude and difference, costumbrista imagery constructed stereotypes of behavioral and biological traits associated with distinct racial and social classes. In doing so, Mey-Yen Moriuchi argues, these works engaged with notions of universality and difference, contributed to the documentation and reification of social and racial types, and transformed the way Mexicans saw themselves, as well as how other nations saw them, during a time of rapid change for all aspects of national identity.Carefully researched and featuring more than thirty full-color exemplary reproductions of period work, Moriuchi’s study is a provocative art-historical examination of costumbrismo’s lasting impact on Mexican identity and history.E-book editions have been made possible through support of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.