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Portraying Nations: Between the Picturesque and the Satirical


 

 

Required readings

á      Ades: 63-99; 101-123

 

 

Important names & terms

á      Indigenism

á      Costumbrismo

á      Porfirio D’az (1830-1915), Porfiriato (ca. 1877-1911)

á      JosŽ Hern‡ndez (1834-1886), Mart’n Fierro (1872, 1879)

á      Gaucho

á      Day of the Dead (D’a de Muertos)

á      Dance of Death

á      Souls in Purgatory

á      Catrinas

 

 

Links to Images

á      JosŽ Mar’a Obreg—n, Discovery of pulque, 1869 (Ades: 34)

á      Leandro Izaguirre, Torture of CuauhtŽmoc, 1893 (Ades: 34)

á      Francisco Laso, The Indian potter, 1855 (Ades: 39)

á      JosŽ Agust’n Arrieta, El chinaco y la china, nd (Ades: 88)

á      JosŽ Ferraz de Almeida Jœnior, The guitar player, 1899 (Ades: 36)

á      Juan Manuel Blanes, Dawn, Dusk, Early Morning, and Evening, nd (Ades: 71)

á      JosŽ Guadalupe Posada, Calavera of the Newspapers, 1889-95 (Ades: 122)

á      JosŽ Guadalupe Posada, Calavera de la catrina, nd

á      JosŽ Mar’a Velasco, View of the Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877 (Ades: 105)

á      JosŽ Mar’a Velasco, El CitlaltŽpetl, 1879 (Ades: 107)