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eBook
Resurrecting Tenochtitlan
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Subject
/ Archaeology-Mexico-Mexico City-History-20th century
/ Architecture & Architectural History
/ ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
/ Aztecs
/ Aztecs Antiquities-History-20th century-Social aspects-Mexico-Mexico City
/ HISTORY
/ In art
/ Mexico
/ Museums
/ National characteristics, Mexican, in art
/ National characteristics, Mexican, in art-History-20th century
ISBN
1477326995, 9781477326992, 9781477327005, 1477327002
