Resurrecting Tenochtitlan Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City

Free Download Delia Cosentino, "Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City "
English | ISBN: 1477326995 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 62 MB
Finalist, 2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association

How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan.
After archaeologists rediscovered a corner of the Templo Mayor in 1914, artists, intellectuals, and government officials attempted to revive Tenochtitlan as an instrument for reassessing Mexican national identity in the wake of the Revolution of 1910. What followed was a conceptual excavation of the original Mexica capital in relation to the transforming urban landscape of modern Mexico City.
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