Professor Stacie Widdifield: "Take Another Look! Resources for the Study of Mexican Visual Culture in the Morales Escarcega Collection" - November 6, 2008
Outline of Podcast
Additional Notes
- The introduction
- Robert Mitchell acknowledges the Páginas de la Historia de México: Excerpts from the Morales de Escárcega Collection Exhibition, recognizes donors, grants, staff, volunteers and introduces Dr. Stacie Widdifield, professor of art history at the University of Arizona.
- The lecture
- Lecture "Take Another Look! Resources for the Study of Mexican Visual Culture in the Morales Escárcega Collection" by Dr. Stacie Widdifield. Focuses on 19th century publications in Mexico and the use of lithographs in text. Dr. Widdifield categorizes the lithographs into the following categories: images for the nation, citizens present themselves and national geography. Specific examples are discussed including the technical manual Secretos Raros de Artes y Oficios: obra útil a toda clase de personas of 1833 and the periodical La Guirnalda. Semanario de historia, geographia, literatura y variedades of 1844 in which are published a series of portraits of Archbishops of Mexico as well as a depiction of a recently erected statue of Antonio López de Santa Anna are also discussed. Dr. Widdifield concludes with a brief discussion on the explosion of publishing at the end of the 19th century.
- Questions and answers
- Questions from the audience answered by Dr. Stacie Widdifield and Verónica Reyes-Escudero.
