Mexican Costumbrismo: Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art

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The years following Mexican independence in 1821 were critical to the development of social, racial, and national identities. The visual arts played a decisive role on this process of self-definition. Mexican Costumbrismo reorients current understanding of this key period within the history of Mexican art by that specialize in a distinctive genre of painting that emerged between 1821 and 1890: costumbrismo.

In contrast to the neoclassical work favored by the Mexican academy, costumbrista artists portrayed the quotidian lives of the lower to middle classes, their clothes, food, dwellings, and occupations. In response to observations of similitude and difference, costumbrista imagery constructed stereotypes of behavioral and biological traits associated with distinct racial and social classes. In doing so, Mey-Yen Moriuchi argues, these works engaged with notions of universality and difference, contributed to the documentation and reification of social and racial types, and transformed the way in which Mexicans saw themselves, in addition to how other nations saw them, right through a time of rapid change for all aspects of national identity.

Carefully researched and featuring more than thirty full-color exemplary reproductions of period work, Moriuchi’s study is a provocative art-historical examination of costumbrismo’s lasting affect on Mexican identity and history.

E-book editions have been made conceivable through beef up of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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