Mey-Yen Moriuchi is Assistant Professor of Art History at LaSalle University.

“This meticulous study of images of everyday social customs in nineteenth-century painting, literature, and photography in Mexico makes an outstanding contribution to the field of art history. Moriuchi’s analysis enriches our understanding of the relation between the aesthetic and the political during Mexico’s tumultuous and pivotal period of nation formation. Her conclusions have important implications as well for the art-historical study of the preceding colonial era and of twentieth-century Mexican modernism.”—Adriana Zavala, author of Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Racialized Social Spaces in Casta and Costumbrista Painting2. Traveler-Artists’ Visions of Mexico3. Literary Costumbrismo: Celebration and Satire of los tipos populares4. Local Perspectives: Mexican Costumbrista Artists5. Costumbrista PhotographyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Mey-Yen Moriuchi is Assistant Professor of Art History at LaSalle University.

“This meticulous study of images of everyday social customs in nineteenth-century painting, literature, and photography in Mexico makes an outstanding contribution to the field of art history. Moriuchi’s analysis enriches our understanding of the relation between the aesthetic and the political during Mexico’s tumultuous and pivotal period of nation formation. Her conclusions have important implications as well for the art-historical study of the preceding colonial era and of twentieth-century Mexican modernism.”—Adriana Zavala, author of Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Racialized Social Spaces in Casta and Costumbrista Painting2. Traveler-Artists’ Visions of Mexico3. Literary Costumbrismo: Celebration and Satire of los tipos populares4. Local Perspectives: Mexican Costumbrista Artists5. Costumbrista PhotographyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Mey-Yen Moriuchi is Assistant Professor of Art History at LaSalle University.

“This meticulous study of images of everyday social customs in nineteenth-century painting, literature, and photography in Mexico makes an outstanding contribution to the field of art history. Moriuchi’s analysis enriches our understanding of the relation between the aesthetic and the political during Mexico’s tumultuous and pivotal period of nation formation. Her conclusions have important implications as well for the art-historical study of the preceding colonial era and of twentieth-century Mexican modernism.”—Adriana Zavala, author of Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Racialized Social Spaces in Casta and Costumbrista Painting2. Traveler-Artists’ Visions of Mexico3. Literary Costumbrismo: Celebration and Satire of los tipos populares4. Local Perspectives: Mexican Costumbrista Artists5. Costumbrista PhotographyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex