Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism ■ Sigüenza y Góngora’s Teatro de Virtudes Políticas 26
6. 2. Castas, Monstrous Bodies, and Soft Buildings 68
7. 3. Experiments in the Representation of National Identity ■ The Pavilion of Mexico in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and the Palacio de Bellas Artes 103
8. 4. Of Ruins and Ghosts ■ The Social Functions of Pre-Hispanic Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 141
9. 5. Traces of the Past ■ Reevaluating Eclecticism in Nineteenth-Century Mexican Architecture 173
10. 6. Visualizing the Future ■ Estridentismo, Technology, and Art 194
11. 7. Re-creating the Past ■ Ignacio Marquina’s Reconstruction of the Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan 221
12. 8. Transnational Culture at the End of the Millennium ■ Rafael Lozano- Hemmer’s “Relational Architectures” 274
13. Conclusion 301
14. Notes 305
15. References 373
16. Index 419