Art and Modernity in Porfirian Mexico
Julia Escalante'sGraziellaand theLechero
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3817845 |
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| Authors | Stacie G Widdifield (University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 336-353 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2009.00379.x |
| OpenAlex | W2019188763 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay examines Julia Escalante'sGraziellaand the 1881El Lechero(The Milkman) as a case study of the ways in which the art of a Mexican woman artist instantiates aspects of Porfirian modernity. In the context of the academic hierarchy that existed through much of the nineteenth century, these scenes of everyday life, that is, genre scenes, done by a woman artist, would have been seemingly unremarkable. Different from most works by a woman artist, these paintings were exhibited in two very different spaces in downtown Mexico City: the National Academy in 1879 and 1881, and later in the Hotel del Jardín in 1888. I will suggest that these exhibition spaces define an architecture of legibility for the paintings inflecting the critical reception of the painting, opening onto the process of Porfirian modernity
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Exhibition · Modernity · Painting · Political science · Visual arts · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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