Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico

Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico
Author: Jennifer Jolly
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2018-01-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1477314202


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In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas transformed a small Michoacán city, Pátzcuaro, into a popular center for national tourism. Cárdenas commissioned public monuments and archeological excavations; supported new schools, libraries, and a public theater; developed tourism sites and infrastructure, including the Museo de Artes e Industrias Populares; and hired artists to paint murals celebrating regional history, traditions, and culture. The creation of Pátzcuaro 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 Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico, Jennifer Jolly argues that Pátzcuaro 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 Cárdenas 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 Pátzcuaro project helped define a new modern body politic for Mexico, in which the population was asked to emulate Cárdenas 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 Pátzcuaro placed art and tourism at the center of Mexico's postrevolutionary nation building project.


Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Jennifer Jolly
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-24 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas transformed a small Michoacán city, Pátzcuaro, into a popu
Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Jennifer Jolly
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-24 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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