Después de las utopías, la nostalgia. El siglo XIX y su recepción en el siglo XX

This article focuses on the historiography of nineteenth-century photography as it appeared in the early twentieth century. It addresses two books by Enrique Fernández Ledesma as a means to analyze the forms of textual and visual representation of the nineteenth-century bourgeois experience, in part...

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Author: Dorotinsky Alperstein, Deborah
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2014
Country:México
Institution:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repository:Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.atenea.esteticas.unam.mx:article/2526
Online Access:https://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/2526
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:nostalgia
nineteenth century
Mexico
photography
historiography.
historiography
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Summary:This article focuses on the historiography of nineteenth-century photography as it appeared in the early twentieth century. It addresses two books by Enrique Fernández Ledesma as a means to analyze the forms of textual and visual representation of the nineteenth-century bourgeois experience, in particular that of romanticism. It emphasizes the importance of the behavioral constructs of social class and gender, while emphasizing the coexistence of the dichotomy tradition/modernity as an inescapable tension in the construction of national Modernity. Hence these behavioral constructs are linked to utopian dreams and remembrances of a viceregal and decimononic past. In other words, to a nostalgia for the past as an historical attitude, and as yet another expression of the paradoxical nature of the energies that moved culture, after the cultural revival of the post-revolutionary period, and that shaped Mexico’s Modernity.