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- Title
The Sovereignty of Things: Nationalism and Its Materials in Mexican Photography (1920s–1940s).
- Authors
SEGRE, ERICA
- Abstract
The ubiquity of the artefact in Mexican photography needs to be understood as the locus of key originary concepts and as a point of purchase for metaphotographic reflexivity and not merely as an emblematic prop or decorative marginalia. The article discusses the way in which strategies of focus, composition and visualisation, along with the selection or ‘find’ of particular objects and materials, made palpable the abstractions of self-hood and cultural singularity through the disclosure of form, light and texture. It considers how the practice of the close-up itself became a cultural trope and how, paradoxically, the pursuit of sovereign objects and autochthonous production in modernist photography elicited a response that infringed visibility in favour of proximity.
- Subjects
MEXICO; NATIONALISM &; art; MODERNISM (Art); PHOTOGRAPHY &; society; ART &; society; MEXICAN national character; NATIONAL character in art; AVANT-garde (Arts); MEXICAN art; ANTHROPOLOGY; MEXICAN folk art
- Publication
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2010, Vol 29, Issue 3, p313
- ISSN
0261-3050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1470-9856.2010.00411.x