Gifting the Cultural-Capitalist State: Consuming Popular Art and Performing Citizenship in Mexico’s Museums.

This article explores the “agency of display” by analyzing key moments in the exhibition of popular art in Mexico’s museums from the immediate post-revolutionary period through the neoliberal dismantling of the welfare state. It explores how the consumption of popular art has been rationalized in an...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Studies in Latin American Popular Culture Vol. 35; pp. 1 - 24
Main Author: Coffey, Mary K.
Format: Article
Published: University of Texas Press 2017
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