Antonio Garcia Cubas's "Carta general" of 1857, the first published
map of the independent Mexican nation-state, represented the
country's geographic coordinates in precise detail. The respected
geographer and cartographer made mapping Mexico his life's work.
Combining insights from the history of cartography and visual
culture studies, Magali M. Carrera explains how Garcia Cubas
fabricated credible and inspiring nationalist visual narratives for
a rising sovereign nation by linking old and new visual strategies.
From the sixteenth century until the early nineteenth, Europeans
had envisioned New Spain (colonial Mexico) in texts, maps, and
other images. In the first decades of the 1800s, ideas about
Mexican, rather than Spanish, national character and identity began
to cohere in written and illustrated narratives produced by foreign
travelers. During the nineteenth century, technologies and
processes of visual reproduction expanded to include lithography,
daguerreotype, and photography. New methods of display--such as
albums, museums, exhibitions, and world fairs--signaled new ideas
about spectatorship. Garcia Cubas participated in this emerging
visual culture as he reconfigured geographic and cultural imagery
culled from previous mapping practices and travel writing. In works
such as the "Atlas geografico" (1858) and the "Atlas pintoresco e
historico" (1885), he presented independent Mexico to Mexican
citizens and the world.
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