Preferred Citation: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio. Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1996 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2k4004k4/


 

INDEX

A

Academia de Letrán, 98

Academia de San Carlos, 55

Acedo, Angel, 134

Acevedo, Jesús T., 104 , 208 , 320 n30

Acuña, Manuel, 150 , 174

Adams, Henry, 7 , 158 , 198

Adorno, Juan Nepomuceno, 43 , 134 , 278 -79n31

Afrancesamiento (Francophilia), 12 , 20 -22. See also France

Agriculture: French investment in, 275 n33;

use of statistics in, 129 , 301 -2n26

Aguilera, José G., 132 , 303 n42

Ahuhuétes (Velasco), 115

Aizpurul, Alberto, 151

Alamám, Lucas, 67 , 69 , 133 , 207

Albert, Prince of England, 43

Alexander II (czar of Russia), 190

Alfonso XIII (king of Spain), 220 , 231

Almanza, Cleofas, 55

Alt, Dr. (Geraldo Murillo), 215 , 234

Altamirano, Francisco, 120 -21, 142 , 153 , 305 -6n4

Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel, 53 , 97 , 162

El alumbrado público en la ciudad de México: Estudio histórico (Arizpe), 316 n37

Alva, José María, 66 , 73

Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Fernando de, 120

Alvarado, Ignacio, 149

Alvarado, Salvador, 227

Álvarez, Manuel Francisco, 99 , 295 n25

Álvarez Bravo, Manuel, 233

Amabilis, Manuel: pre-Hispanic/modern synthesis of, 225 , 228 -31, 235 -37;

public buildings of, 227 -28;

on Victor Reyes's legends, 328 n61;

on Diego Rivera, 230 ;

as Seville delegate, 226 , 227 , 326 nn37, 38

Amaral, Tarsila do, 201

Americanism: and European nationalism, 91 -92

Anales del Instituto Médico Nacional (formerly El Estudio ), 142 , 149

Andrade, Mario de, 201

Andrade, Oswald de, 201

Annitúa, Fanny, 216

Anthropology: Chicago exhibits on, 185 , 314 n17;

classificatory structure of, 88 -89, 94 ;

Mexican promotion of, 89 , 95 , 235 -36, 292 n31, 293 n48;

physical vs. ethnographic approaches of, 91 -92;

race issues of, 89 -92, 93 -94, 132 ;

world fairs' focus on, 85 , 87

Anti-Americanism: of postrevolutionary pro-Hispanics, 208 , 214 -15

Antiquities of México (Lord Kingsborough), 73

Anza, Antonio M. de: Aztec Palace of, 66 , 73 , 100 , 182 ;

Científicos peers of, 23 ;

and Contreras, 61 , 111 ;

as engineer, 102 , 295 n33;

Paris pavilion design of, 191 , 193 -94

Anzorena y Agreda, Luis, 55

"Apuntes para el estudio del clima en México" (Orvañanos), 309 n61

Aragón, Agustín, 128

Araquistáin, Luis, 233


358

Architecture: avant-garde cosmopolitan, 237 -38;

engineering and, 100 -102;

Latin American exhibits of, 97 ;

Mexican professionalization of, 102 , 296 n37;

modernist innovations in, 185 , 315 n21;

national style uncertainty in, 97 -100, 102 -4, 193 -94, 208 , 321 n44;

postrevolutionary neocolonial, 201 , 206 -7, 208 -9;

pre-Hispanic form of, 100 -101, 103 -4;

pre-Hispanic/modern synthesis in, 228 -29, 231 -32, 327 n53;

revived classicism in, 194 -95

Argentina, 18 , 43 ;

architectural presentations of, 97 , 327 n53;

as immigrant destination, 37 , 176 , 276 n53;

national image of, 19 ;

statistical studies from, 129 -30, 302 n27;

world's fair budgets of, 225 , 281 n9

Arias, Juan de Dios, 68

Ariel (Rodó), 222

Arista, Mariano, 43

Arizpe, Rafael R., 316 n37

El Ateneo de la Juventud, 21

Atlanta Cotton States International Exhibition (1895), 85 , 185 -86

Aubin, J. M. A., 91

Au Mexique: átudes, notes et renseignements utiles au capitalistes, a l'immigrant, e au touriste (Gostkowski), 59

Austria-Hungary, 17

Austrian Museum, 282 n26

Avant-garde movements, 239 -40

Avery , Isaac W., 40

Awards: Buffalo fair, 315 n27;

Chicago fair, 184 , 315 n27, 317 n45;

Paris 1889 fair, 21 , 58 , 59 -60, 64 , 121 , 122 , 131 , 191 , 302 n37;

Paris 1900 fair, 110 , 191 , 315 n97;

Rio fair, 215 -16;

Seville fair, 234 , 328 n74

Aztec Lilliputians, 85 , 291 n23

Aztec Palace: architects' criticism of, 98 -99;

commissions assigned to, 66 ;

cost of, 189 ;

disassembly/storage of, 181 -82, 184 , 313 n2, 314 nn3, 5, 6, 7;

as engineering/ architectural exhibition, 101 -2;

as exotic/modern synthesis, 64 -65, 67 , 71 , 73 , 75 , 77 , 82 -84, 123 -24;

facade of, 82 , 94 , 99 , 105 , 108 , 110 ;

inauguration coverage of, 79 -80;

interior designs of, 78 -79, 82 -83, 99 ;

landscape paintings of, 112 , 114 -16, 121 -22;

media satirization of, 99 , 169 , 170 -71;

Peñafiel's design of, 66 , 73 , 75 , 94 -95, 289 n43;

photography exhibits of, 117 -18;

precursor to, 279 n35;

pre-Hispanic style of, 70 , 97 , 101 , 103 -4, 118 -21;

racial ambivalence of, 88 ;

Salazar's proposal on, 66 , 73 , 103 -4, 289 n41, 296 n42;

scientific works in, 125 -26;

site and construction of, 78 , 289 n57, 290 n59.

See also Sculptures (Aztec Palace)

Aztecs: Contreras's eclectic sculptures of, 108 , 110 , 112 , 297 n64;

cultural preeminence of, 70 ;

mythology of, 105 ;

Obregón's paintings of, 118 , 119 -21.

See also Indians

"Aztecs and Their Industries" (Saint Louis exhibit), 85 , 188

Aztec stand (Philadelphia exhibit), 39 , 277 n9

B

Bablot, Alfredo, 49 , 61 -62, 99 , 285 n88, 289 n54, 308 n44

Balbuena, Bernardo de, 31

Ballesca, Santiago, 68 , 70 -71, 286 -87n14

Ballu, Albert, 97 , 98 -99

Baranda, Joaquín, 171

Barcelona exhibition, 220

Bátrcena, Mariano, 40 , 44 , 50

Barreda, Gabino, 29

Batres, Leopoldo, 84 , 88 , 89 , 93 -94

Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 6 , 71 , 158

Baz, Gustavo, 79 , 281 n11, 297 n59

Belgium, 17

Belmont, Andrés, 121

Beltrán, Joaquín, 49

BEMP (Boletín de la Exposición Mexicana en París,1889,280 -81n2

Benjamin, Walter, 269 n5

Berger, George, 23

Berlin fair (1883), 44

Bertier-Marriot, Clement, 276 n44

Bianconi, F., 34 , 58 , 284 n68

Bibliothéque Nationale (Paris), 282 n26

Bibriesca, Alberto, 55

Bibriesca, Antonio, 121

Biographical dictionaries, 58 , 284 n65

Bishop, William Henry, 25

Black immigration, 36 -37

Blanco, José Joaquín, 322 n60, 324 n85

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 92

Boari, Adamo, 182


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Boas, Franz, 93

La bola (Rabasa), 174

Boletín de la Exposición Mexicana en París,1889 (BEMP), 280 -81n2

Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística , 143

Bolivia, 18 , 19 , 97 , 280 n48

Bonaparte, Prince Roland, 59

Bonilla, Abigael, 216

The Book of Thousand and One Nights , xi

Boston food fair (1908), 189

Botanical studies, 142 , 143 -44, 305 -6nn4, 10

Boulanger, Ernest Jean Marie, 25

Bourbourg, Brasseur de, 91

Bourgeoisie, Louis, 59

Bourget, P., 272 n51

Brading, David, 246 , 250 , 286 n5, 322 n63

Brazil: Mexican delegation to, 203 -4, 216 ;

national image of, 19 ;

neocolonialist renovation in, 202 , 209 ;

regional conflicts in, 201 ;

statistical exhibits from, 130 ;

as Vasconcelos's utopia, 219 , 323 n67, 324 n85;

at world's fairs, 43 , 200

Brehme, Hugo, 233

British Library of the British Museum (London), 282 n26

British Royal Commission, 17

Broca, Paul, 92 , 93

Budgets: Chicago fair, 17 , 262 ;

media on, 167 , 312 n23;

of Mexico, 262 -65;

New Orleans fair, 17 , 40 -41;

Paris 1889 fair, 16 , 17 , 43 , 49 -50, 189 , 262 , 263 , 281 nn7, 9;

Paris 1900 fair, 49 -50, 189 ;

Philadelphia fair, 17 , 39 , 277 n9;

Rio fair, 319 nn4, 5, 323 n73;

Seville fair, 224 , 225 , 326 n23;

state responsibility for, 17 , 39 , 40 -41, 277 n9

El Buen Tono (cigarette brand), 211

Buffalo world's fair (1901), 8 , 11 , 184 , 187 , 303 n53, 315 n27

Bulletin de l'Exposition Universelle de Paris 1889 , 15

Bullock, William, 43 , 278 n28

Bulnes, Francisco, 21 , 176 -77, 311 n3

Bustamante, Carlos María de, 67

Busto, Emiliano, 56 ;

public administration study by, 137 -41, 304 n72, 305 nn79, 81;

statistical focus of, 54 , 128 , 129 ;

technocratic peers of, 23 , 49

C

Cacama (Aztec hero), 77 , 105 , 108

Cahun, Léon, 112 , 114 , 115

Calles, Plutarco Elías, 202 , 204 , 222 -23, 224 , 232 , 237

Calvo, Pedro, 282 n40

Camaxtli (god), 77 , 105 , 108

Campa (photographer), 277 n8

Campo, Angel del, 167 , 174 , 312 n29

Campos Ortiz, Pablo, 205 , 217

Cañada de Metlac (Velasco), 115

Canciones para can tar en los barcos (Gorostiza), 234

Canto, R., 71 , 288 n32

Carbajal, Antonio, 134 -35, 148

Cárdenas, Guty, 325 -26n22

Cárdenas, Lázaro, 236 , 237

Carmona y Valle, Manuel María, 149 , 173

Carneiro da Cunha Filho, José M., 209

Carnot, Sadi, 22 , 25 , 79 , 201

Carrasco, Gonzalo, 41

Carta estadística minera de la Rep ública Mexicana (Chicago exhibit), 184

Carta general geográfica (Paris 1889 exhibit), 131

Carta general geológica (Paris 1889 exhibit), 132 -33

Carta general minera de la República Mexicana (Paris 1889 exhibit), 132 -33

La Carte générale de la République à la centmillionèsime partie, par le système horizontal , 131

Cartographic exhibits (Paris 1889), 130 -32, 302 n37

Cartoons: as ironic critiques, 162 -64, 312 n10

Carvalho, R. de, 201

Casasola, Gustavo, 314 n7

Casasus, Joaquín, 23

Caso, Antonio, 217 , 234

Castillo, Antonio del, 132 , 133 , 303 n42

Catholic church, 99 , 169 , 224 , 231

Cazeneuve, Felipe, 58

Ceballos, José, 171 , 313 n45

Çelik, Z., 84 , 98

Census, 54

Centeotl (goddess), 77 , 105 , 296 n49

César, José María, 1 34

Chabert, Maximiliano M., 187 , 197

Chacón, Manuel, 237

Chalchiutlicue (goddess), 77 , 105 , 296 -97n50

Charcot, Jean-Martin, 138

Charnay, Desiré de, 67 , 73 , 85 , 91 , 288 n34


360

Chavero, Alfredo: on Aztec Palace proposals, 77 ;

on Camaxtli god, 108 ;

exhibition team peers of, 55 ;

Lerdo de Tejada

panegyric by, 30 -31;

México a través de los siglos , 68 , 70 , 73 , 84 ;

Saint Louis fair exhibits of, 187 , 315 n29

Chávez Orozco, Luis, 275 n33

Chicago Columbian Exposition (1893): Henry Adams on, 7 , 198 ;

antagonistic views of, 8 -9;

awards at, 184 , 315 n27, 317 n45;

exhibits at, 25 , 56 , 127 , 131 , 184 -85, 314 n17;

Hispanism and, 222 ;

Mexico's financing of, 17 ;

U.S. national image and, 19 , 41 , 43

Chile, 18 , 97 , 216 , 323 n74, 327 n53

Chinese immigration, 35 , 36 , 37 , 276 n51

Científicos, 23 , 24 , 29 , 126 , 128 , 153 . See also Porfirian elites

Cigarette companies, 175 -76

Class: indigenist/Hispanic synthesis and, 239 ;

modernity's construction of, 22 -23, 88 -89, 124 , 292 n31

Clavijero, Francisco Xavier, 31 , 67

Clendinnen, Inga, 296 -97n50

Climate: and disease transmission, 151 , 152 , 309 n61

Colegio de Minería, 101

Colibert, E., 110 -11

Colonia Juárez (Mexico City), 208 , 321 n44

Columna de la Independencia (Mexico City), 55

Comisión de Límites, 131

Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora, 131 , 142 -43, 184 , 302 n37

Comisión Geológica Mexicana, 184 -85

Comtian positivism. See Positivism Condorcet, Marquis de, 125

Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (1895), 91

Congreso Pedagógico Higiénico (1882), 150 -51

Consejo Superior de Salubridad (Superior Sanitation Council), 147 , 172 , 173 , 308 nn35, 36

Conservative liberalism: and state intervention, 137 -40, 305 n85

Contaduría de la Federación: Cuenta Pública (Mexico City,1889-1890), 281 n7

Contemporáneos group, 202

Contreras, Jesús, 55 ;

awards to, 110 , 191 ;

bronze focus of, 78 , 110 , 297 n59;

Díaz Mimiaga and, 111 , 297 n62;

in exhibition conflicts, 61 ;

Paris pavilion design of, 191 -92, 317 nn46, 47;

relocated sculptures of, 182 , 314 nn6, 7, 10;

sculptural style of, 105 , 108 , 112 , 297 n64;

statuary corporation of, 112

Corbin, Alain, 150

Cornely, René de, 45 -46

Correa, Alberto, 152

Cortés, Hernán, 212

Cosío Villegas, Daniel, 251 , 287 n15

Cosmes, Francisco, 20

The Cosmic Race (Vasconcelos). See La raza cósmica

Cosmopolitanism: controlled portrayals of, 2 ;

exoticist reconciliation with, 81 -82, 83 -84, 114 -15;

nationalism and, 8 , 9 , 71 , 96 -97;

of proindigenist trends, 209 -11.

See also Modern nation

Costa Rica, 18

Cotton States International Exhibition (1895, Atlanta), 85 , 185 -86

Covarrubias, José, 276 n51

Crespo, Gilberto, 23 , 50 , 57 , 170 , 282 n27

Criollo patriotism, 67 , 69 -70, 246 , 250 , 286 n5. See also Indigenism

Cristero rebellion, 224 , 231

La Crónica , 169

Cruces (photographer), 277 n8

Cruces y Compañía, 118

Cruz, Juana Inés de la, 267 n1

Cruz Conde, José, 220

Crystal Palace fair (1851). See London Crystal Palace fair

Crystal Palace (London exhibit), 100

Cuadro estadístico (Glümer), 54

Cuauhtémoc (emperor of the Aztecs), 66 , 77

Cuauhtémoc monument: Herrera's design of, 55 , 283 n45;

Rio fair's replica of, 205 ;

sculptural style of, 77 , 105 , 108 , 208 ;

Vasconcelos on, 212 -14, 322 n60

Cuesta, Jorge, 251

Cuitlahuac (Aztec hero), 77 , 105 , 108

Cuvier, Georges, 92

D

Darío, Rubén, 195 , 317 n60

Darwinism: anthropological use of, 92 -93, 293 n48;

geological links to, 132 ;

mestizo fusion vs., 211 -12;

of Riva Palacio, 69 , 93 , 287 n20


361

De historia plantarum Novae Hispanae (Hernandez), 143

Democracy: as changing concept, 5

El descubrimiento del pulque (Obregón), 118 , 119 -21

De Vogüe, Eugene-Melchior, 81 , 82 , 100

El Diario del Hogar : on Aztec Palace, 169 ;

on idealized national image, 161 , 168 , 172 -73, 312 n9;

on Liceaga, 154 ;

on Mexican world's fair, 45 , 280 n46;

on propaganda, 176 ;

on world's fair budget, 167 , 312 n23

Diaz, Agustín, 131 , 306 n7

Díaz, Felix, 196

Díaz, Porfirio: anthropology support from, 93 ;

awards distribution by, 278 n26;

bust exhibits of, 55 , 121 , 283 n45;

Contreras and, 111 , 297 n62;

exhibit interests of, 57 , 85 , 131 , 138 ;

exhibition team and, 49 , 50 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 77 ;

media satires of, 162 -63, 165 -66, 167 , 170 , 173 ;

on social issues, 24 ;

transformed regime of, 29 ;

wife of, 25 , 50 , 184

Díaz Covarrubias, Francisco, 50 , 281 n11

Díaz Dufoo, Carlos, 129 , 167 , 312 n29

Díaz Mimiaga, Manuel: appointment of, 47 ;

in Aztec Palace negotiations, 78 , 289 nn57, 59;

Contreras and, 55 , 111 , 297 n62;

Porfirio Díaz and, 50 , 165 -66;

difficult personality of, 61 , 285 n80;

exhibition team role of, 47 , 49 , 59 ;

media on, 170

Dirección General de Estadística, 129

Le Disciple (Bourget), 272 n51

Disease: international debates on, 149 ;

transmission of, 145 , 148 , 151 -52, 153

Doctorow, E. L., 198

Dominican Republic, 18

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 6 -7

Drainage systems, 148 , 173 , 308 n40

Dreyfus affair (1894), 25

Dublán, Manuel, 166

Dunn, Archibald, 36

Dupaix, Guillerme, 67 , 73

Dupont, R., 304 n72

Durán, Diego, 289 n43

Durán, Manuel, 171

E

El Economista Mexicano , 167

Ecuador, 18 , 97

La Edad de Oro (Martí), 285 n1

Edge Moor Iron Company (United States), 45

Edison, Thomas, 18 , 135

Education: Paris 1889 exhibits on, 55 -56;

and racial fusion, 89 -90

Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 282 n40

Eiffel Tower (Paris 1889 exhibit), 27 , 84 , 98 , 100 , 101

Electricity, exhibits (Paris 1900), 102 , 189 -90, 316 n37

Eliot, T. S., 6 , 188

El Salvador, 18 , 130

Encina, Juan de la, 114

Engineering: architecture and, 101 -2

England, 16 -17, 34 , 206 , 275 n33, 320 n31

English Ethnological Society, 85

Ensayo de geografía Médica y climatología de la República Mexicana (Orvañanos), 151

Época Ilustrado , 162

Escandón, Pedro de, 43 , 278 n27

Escobarista rebellion, 224

España Fiel (Gómez Morin), 234

Esparza, Isaac, 134

Esparza Otero, Alfonso, 234

El Estudio (later Anales del Instituto M édico Nacional ), 142 , 149

Estudio sobre las razas mexicanas (Genin), 281 n19

Ethnography: race issues of, 91 -92. See also Anthropology

Ethnos , 211

Europe: exotic interests of, 7 -8, 18 , 97 , 236 -37, 329 n78;

Mexican anthropology interest of, 91 , 292 n41;

public hygiene in, 145 -46, 307 n25, 308 n32

Evolutionism. See Darwinism

Exoticism: cosmopolitanism's reconciliation with, 81 -82, 83 -84, 114 -15;

1890s decline of, 102 , 296 n37;

European demands for, 18 , 97 , 236 -37, 329 n78;

and European nationalism, 91 -92;

Mexican exhibitions of, 7 -8;

of modernist architecture, 185 , 315 n21;

of popular art, 215 , 323 n71

Explication de l'edifice mexicaine (Peñafiel), 84

Exponer (to exhibit, to expose), 162 , 164 , 312 n10

Exposição Internacional do Centenario (1922). See Rio de Janeiro world's fair

Exposición Ibero-Americana (1929). See Seville world's fair


362

Expositions (Hamon), 312 n10

Extractive arts exhibits: at Chicago fair, 184 -85;

at Paris 1889 fair, 57 , 132 -33, 283 n56, 303 n42

F

Fell, Claude, 215 , 323 n71

Fernández, Ignacio, 233

Fernández, Justino, 118 , 120

Fernández, Leandro, 50

Fernández, Ramón, 47 , 61 , 79 , 279 n35

Fernández Leal, Manuel, 12 , 51 , 191 , 317 n47

Fernández Ledesma, Gabriel, 205 , 206 , 215 , 217

Ferrari Pérez, Fernando, 50 , 55 , 282 n27

Ferrocarril Nacional Mexicano, 116

Ferry, Jules, 16

Financing. See Budgets Finlay, Carlos, 149

Flameng, Leopold, 122

Flaubert, Gustave, 8

Flores, Francisco, 149 -50, 153

Flores, Manuel: media satirization of, 168 ;

Paris 1889 exhibition role of, 24 , 50 , 77 , 148 , 271 -72n42, 282 n27, 308 n44

Foreign investment: competition for, 19 , 37 ;

by France, 34 , 275 nn33, 34;

hygiene's importance to, 154 -55;

media satirization of, 161 ;

patents registration and, 133 -34, 303 n53;

Porfirian goal of, 33 , 34 , 126 ;

statistical basis of, 129

France: anthropological approach of, 91 -92;

antipositivist reaction in, 26 , 272 n51;

architectural trends in, 99 -101, 102 ;

Aztec Palace negotiations in, 78 ;

classicist art of, 122 ;

exoticist displays from, 7 , 18 ;

foreign investment interests of, 18 , 34 , 275 nn33, 34;

freedom concept of, 5 ;

hygiene concerns in, 144 , 145 , 307 n25;

Mexican diplomatic relations with, 47 -48;

Mexican media on, 168 ;

Porfirian idealization of, xii , 12 , 20 -22;

public administration study of, 137 -38, 139 , 304 n72, 305 nn79, 81;

revolution commemorative of, 15 -16;

social economy issues of, 22 -24, 271 n39;

technocracy image of, 23 , 125 ;

transformed nationalism of, 25 -26;

universalism model of, 16 , 17 -18, 26 -27, 249 -50;

world's fair budgets of, 16 , 319 n5

Freedom: fairs' celebration of, 4 -5;

Porfirian conception of, 31

French, Daniel Chester, 297 n60

French Ministry of Finance, 138

French Revolution (1789), 15 , 16

French Second Empire, 5

French Third Republic. See France

Fritel, Pierre, 123 , 300 n102

Fuente Salceda, Maria de la Concepción, 277 n9

Fundición Artística Mexicana, 112

Funerales de un Indígena (Jara), 118

Furet and Rousseau (shipping company), 182 , 314 n3

Fuste, F., 71

G

Gabarrot, E., 57

La Gaceta M édica de M éxico , 134 , 150

Galindo y Villa, Jesús, 234

Galton, Francis, 87 , 130

Gamboa, Federico, 150 , 167 , 234

Gamio, Manuel, 93 , 208 , 211 , 214 -15, 235 , 321 n44, 322 n63

García, Augustín, 225

Garcia, Pedro, 308 n44

García Chávez, Antonio, 134

García Cubas, Antonio, 35 -36, 55 , 89 , 129 , 132 , 174 , 275 n41

García Granados, Ricardo, 293 n47

García Teruel, Gertrudis, 184

Garfias, Luis G., 215

Gargallo di Castel Lentini, Francesca, 287 n15

Garnier, Charles, 84 , 85 , 98 , 100 , 103

Garza, Abraham P. de la, 50

Gaviño, Angel, 148 -49, 153 , 154 -55, 308 n44

Gayol, Roberto, 308 n40

Genin, Auguste, 21 -22, 50 -51, 57 , 59 , 88 , 281 n19

Geographical sciences, 130 -32, 174 -75

Geologische Reichsanstalt (Vienna), 133

Geology exhibits. See Extractive arts exhibits

Germany, 17 , 34

Gibson, W. Hamilton, 8

Gide, Charles, 144

Gilbert, James, 185

Glasgow world's fair (1890), 181 , 313 n2

Glümer, Bodo von, 54

Godoy, José Francisco, 40 , 58 , 277 n15, 280 -81n2, 326 n34

Gómez, José L., 153

Gómez Morín, Manuel, 207 , 217 , 234 , 321 n40


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Gomot, Hippolyte, 59

González, Gregorio E., 185 -86

González, Luis, 32 , 217

González, Manuel, 29 , 40

Gonzalez Martinez, Enrique, 216 ;

awards to, 234 ;

Mexican pavilion activities and, 321 , 326 -27n39;

on Mexican revolutionaries, 224 ;

on Victor Reyes's legends, 328 n61;

on Spanish republic, 223 ;

Vasconcelos on, 226 -27

González Navarro, Moisés, 275 n41

Goodhue, Bertram G., 327 n53

Gorostiza, José, 234

Gostkowski, Gustave, 59 , 284 n72

Goudeau, Émile, 27

La gran ciencia (Rabasa), 174

Greaver, María, 234

Grevy, Jules, 25

Gros Caillou (tobacco factory), 57

Groussac, Paul, 8 -9

Guatemala, 18 , 43

Guernica (Picasso), 237

Guerra, François Xavier, 273 n6, 330 n12

Guerra, Gabriel, 55 , 121 , 283 n45

Guerrero, Omar, 305 n79

Guerreros (Seville exhibit), 229

Guerry, A.M., 301 n10

Guillon, François Pierre, 123 , 300 n102

Gutiérrez, Rodrigo, 118

Gutiérrez Najera, Manuel, 62 , 175 , 216 , 285 n88

H

Haber, Stephen, 33 , 274 n26

Hacking, Ian, 130 , 301 n21

Haiti, 18

Hale, Charles, 20 , 93 , 287 n20, 293 n48

Hall, Christopher J., 323 n66

Hamon, Philippe, 312 n10

Hamy, E. T., 91 , 93 , 97 , 292 n41

Hausen, Gerhard, 152

Henríquez Ureña, Pedro, 205

Hermosa, Jesús, 128

Hernandez, Francisco, 142 , 143

Herrera, Alberto, 55 , 283 n45

Herrera, Alfonso, 93 , 306 n10

Herrera, Luis R., 226 , 328 n68

Hidalgo, Miguel, 66

Hidgreth, Martha L., 308 n33

El Hijo del Ahuizote : hygiene caricatures in, 73 ;

ironic cartoon critiques in, 162 -64;

on Mexican exhibits, 166 , 169 , 312 n21;

on national image presentation, 99 , 160 -61, 167 , 170 , 311 n4;

on Porfirian political machine, 164 -65

El himen en México (Flores), 149 -5

Hinojosa, Pedro, 171

Hispanic fair (1883, Buenos Aires), 44

Hispanism: emergence of, 208 -9;

indigenist synthesis with, 206 -7, 209 , 212 , 214 -15, 231 , 239 ;

Seville's modern expression of, 221 -23;

Vasconcelos's messianic, 218 -19, 324 n80

Histoire de l'habitation (Garnier), 100

Historia antigua de la conquista de México (Orozco y Berra), 289 n43

Historia de la Nueva España (Sahagún), 289 n43

Historia de las indias de la Nueva España e islas de tierra firme (Durán), 289 n43

Historia de Méjico (Alamán), 67

History: as accessible narrative, xi , 267 n1;

Alamán's account of, 67 ;

Aztec Palace's reconstruction of, 65 -66;

as development of reason, 4 ;

modern view of, 1 ;

Porfirian presentation of, 68 -71, 95 , 286 nn11, 12, 13, 287 n15

"History of Habitation" (Paris 1889 exhibit), 82 , 84

Hobsbawm, Eric, 10

Hollyhock House (California), 315 n21

Los hombres prominentes de México (Paz), 58 , 61 , 284 n65

Honduras, 18

Hoover in Spanish America (film), 233

Huerta, Adolfo de la, 202 -3

Huerta, Victoriano, 196 -97

Hugo, Victor, 26 , 27

Humboldt, Alexander von, 31 , 67 , 129

Hygiene: disease transmission and, 146 , 151 -53, 308 n32;

media satirization of, 171 -73;

medical profession and, 147 -48;

as national image element, 154 -55, 156 ;

Rio fair's emphasis on, 200 , 318 n3;

sanitary engineering and, 148 , 308 n40;

as scientific enterprise, 145 -46, 307 n25;

state intervention in, 155 -56;

women's issues and, 149 -51

Hymen studies, 149 -50

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Ibarrola, Ramón, 41

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Identity, 244 , 329 n3. See also National image

Iglesias, José María, 29

Immigration: Chinese and black, 35 , 36 -37, 276 n51;

competition for, 19 -20, 176 -77, 276 nn44, 53;

hygiene's importance to, 154 -55;

media on policy of, 160 -61;

patents registration and, 133 -34;

Porfirian goals on, 126 , 300 n7;

from United States, 35 , 39

Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), 185

Imperialism: exoticist displays of, 7 , 18 ;

French nationalism and, 25 -26

Import-substitution policy, 35

Indians: educability of, 45 , 89 -90;

evolutionary superiority of, 93 -94;

hygiene issues and, 156 ;

in national image portrayal, 53 ;

Porfirian ambivalence on, 88 , 121 ;

reconstructed past of, 66 -67, 69 -70, 73 , 75 , 77 , 119 -21.

See also Aztecs

Indigenism: anthropology's advancement of, 235 -36;

cosmopolitan aesthetics and, 209 -11;

of criollo patriots, 67 ;

Hispanism's synthesis with, 206 -7, 209 , 212 , 214 -15, 231 , 239 , 322 n63;

media on, 169 -70;

postrevolutionary monument to, 182 , 184 .

See also Indians

Indología (Vasconcelos), 211

Industria de la plata (film), 233

La industria del petróleo en México (film), 233

Industrialization, 3 , 17 , 33 , 53 , 274 n26

Inspección y Conservación de Monumentos Arqueológicos de la República, 84 , 89 , 292 n32

Instituto Geográfico, 129

Instituto Geológico, 303 n42

Instituto Médico Nacional, 127

International Congress of Conservation and Protection of Artistic Works (1889), 292 n32

International corporations: world's fairs and, 45 -46, 203 , 319 n15

International School of Anthropology (Mexico City), 93

Inventions, 134 -35, 304 n58

Islas, Flora, 216

Italy, 17 , 35

Itzcoatl (Aaztec hero), 77 , 105 , 108

J

Jackson, William Henry, 116 -17

Jamba de la Fusión de las Razas (Seville exhibit), 229

Jambas (allegorical representations), 229

Japan, 41

Jara, José, 118

Jiménez Rueda, Julio, 234 , 322 n60

Johnson, William Templeton, 327 n53

Jones, Owen, 100

Jornal do Commercio (Brazil), 205

Josat, Jules, 138 , 139 , 305 nn77, 79, 81

Juan Antonio (Mexican Indian), 8 , 54

Juárez, Benito, 66 , 278 n20

K

Kahlo, Guillermo, 215 , 233

Keystone Bridge Company (Pittsburgh), 41

Kingsborough, viscount of, 67 , 73

Knight, Alan, 30 , 323 n78, 330 n13

Krantz, Jean-Baptiste, 23

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Landesio, Eugenio, 114

Landscape painting, 112 , 114 -16;

photography vs., 117

La Laterne journal, 144

Latin America: architectural presentations from, 96 -97;

collective exhibitions of, 47 , 280 n48;

foreign interests in, 18 , 34 , 275 nn33, 34;

idealization of France, xii -xiii, 22 , 27 ;

immigration competition within, 19 -20, 176 -77, 276 n53;

neo-colonial hybridism of, 231 , 327 n53;

Vasconcelos's ideas in, 204 , 216 , 323 n74;

Western-dominated nationalism of, 248 , 330 n12;

world's fair participation by 18-19, 40

Latour, Bruno, 307 n25

Lavista, Rafael, 149

Le Berge (scientist), 307 n25

Lechuga, Juan, 234

Leclerc du Sablon, Mathieu, 211 , 322 n54

Leçons sur l'étiologie et la prophylaxie de la fièvre jaune (Carmona y Valle), 149

Le Corbusier, 206 , 209

Lelo de Larrea, Luis, 182

León, Luis L., 227

Leén, Nicolas, 89 , 93 , 215 , 292 n31

Le Play, Frédéric, 23 , 144

Leprosy, 149 , 152 -53, 310 n67

Lerdista group, 30 -31

Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastián, 17 , 29 , 30 -31, 39 -40

Levasseur, E., 59 , 130

La Libertad group, 29 , 36 , 98

La Libertad (Madrid), 231


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La Libertad (Porfirian newspaper), 20

Libraries: data distribution to, 51 , 282 n26

Liceaga, Eduardo, 151 , 309 n62;

Científicos peers of, 23 , 153 ;

hygiene role of, 147 , 154 , 155 , 310 nn75, 79;

media criticism of, 172 -73

Limantour, José Yves, 23 , 49 , 50 , 126 , 278 n20, 281 n11

Limantour, Julio, 50 , 281 n11

Lombardo Toledano, Vincente, 217

London Crystal Palace fair (1851), 4 -5, 6 -7, 43 , 127 , 278 nn27, 28, 301 n10

López Velarde, Ramón, 251 , 253

Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904, Saint Louis), 6 , 85 , 187 -88, 315 n29

Low Countries, 17

Lucio, Rafael, 149 , 155

Lund, Macody, 327 n46

M

Machines Gallery (Paris 1889 exhibit), 98 , 100 , 101

McKinley, William, 11

Madero, Evaristo, 51

Madero, Francisco I., 51 , 196 -97

Madrid historical exhibition (1892), 97

Malfatti, Anita, 201

Malgré-tout (Contreras), 110 , 191

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 26

Malo, Salvador, 46

Mancera, Gabriel, 39

Mandell, Richard D., 316 n38

"The Man Who Was King" (Eliot), 6

Mariátegui, José Carlos, 324 n80

Maria y Campos, Ricardo de, 35 , 54 , 282 n37

Mariscal, Federico E., 104 , 208 , 320 n30

Mariscal, Ignacio, 57 , 170 -71

Mariscal, Nicolás, 102 -3, 104

Marquina, Ignacio, 225 , 326 n29

Martí José, 64 , 81 , 84 , 285 n1

Massachusetts State Board of Health, 310 n68

Maximilian (emperor of Mexico), 20 , 47 , 68 , 194

Maya architecture, 185 , 315 n21, 329 n78

Mayer, Arnold J., 190

Media: on Aztec Palace, 99 , 169 , 170 -71;

on Porfirio Díaz, 162 -63, 165 -66, 167 ;

fair envoys from, 167 -68;

on idealized national image, 159 -62, 167 , 168 -69, 171 -73, 176 -78, 311 n4, 312 n9;

on official indigenism, 169 -70;

on Porfirian political machine, 164 -65;

science caricatures in, 166 , 171 -75, 312 n21;

state's relationship with, 59 , 159 , 167 -68, 311 n3;

on world's fair budget, 167 , 312 n23

Medical profession: hygiene contributions by, 147 -48;

as political elites, 153 -54, 155 -56, 310 n79;

women's exclusion from, 151 , 309 n56

Medina y Ormaechea, Antonia A., 45 , 280 n46

Mehédin, Leon, 279 n35

Meissonier, J. L. Ernest, 122 , 123

Melagraphie, ou nouvelle notation musicale par Juan Adorno (Adorno), 278 -79n31

Melchert (photographer), 197

Mena, Francisco A., 171

Mendieta y Nuñez, Lucio, 235

Mendizábal, Miguel Othón de, 215 , 235

Mendoza, Alberto, 225

Mestizos, 69 -70, 89

Meteorites (Paris 1889 exhibit), 133

Meulemans, Auguste, 18 , 269 n17

Mexican Alhambra (New Orleans exhibit), 41 , 278 n20

Mexican-American War, 39

Mexican exhibits (Paris 1889): awards for, 131 , 302 n37;

budget for, 49 -50, 281 n7;

cartographic, 130 -32, 302 n37;

commercial commission on, 54 , 282 n37;

ethnographic focus of, 84 -85, 291 n21;

extractive arts, 57 , 132 -33, 283 n56, 303 n42;

group directors of, 50 ;

hygiene and sanitation, 148 -51;

local fairs' collection for, 51 , 282 n26;

media satirization of, 160 -64, 166 , 171 -72, 312 n21;

national image goals of, xii -xiii, 34 , 52 -54;

natural history, 142 , 143 -44, 306 n6;

patent protection for, 133 -34, 304 n54;

product categories of, 55 -58;

proposed inventions for, 134 -35, 304 n58;

public administration study, 137 -41, 304 n72, 350 nn79, 81;

societies contributing to, 125 -26;

statistical, 127 -28, 130 .

See also Aztec Palace; Sculptures (Aztec Palace)

Mexican Pavilion (Seville 1929): corruption and, 227 , 326 -27n39;

cost of, 326 n33;

cultural continuities of, 235 -37;

design proposal for, 225 ;

explanatory book on, 228 , 327 n42;

legends for, 232 , 328 n61;


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pre-Hispanic/modern synthesis of, 228 -31, 327 n46

Mexican Revolution (1910): and national image transformation, 224 , 228 , 238 -39, 240 , 251 -52, 326 n25;

reevaluation of, xii , 274 n22

Mexican Society for Consumption (Sociedad Mexicana de Consumo), 45

"Mexican Village" (Atlanta exhibit), 85 , 186

Mexico: ambivalent modernism of, 190 -91, 194 -96;

anthropological developments in, 89 , 92 -94, 95 , 292 n31, 293 n48;

architectural expertise in, 101 -2, 296 n37;

centenary independence festival of, 216 ;

class structure of, 88 -89;

delegation to Brazil from, 202 , 203 -4;

democracy's connotation in, 5 ;

exoticist exhibits from, 7 -8;

financing of fairs in, 17 , 39 , 40 -41, 49 -50, 262 -65, 277 n9;

foreign investment interests in, 34 , 37 , 275 nn33, 34;

French idealization by, 12 , 20 -22, 123 ;

under Huerta regime, 196 -98;

hygiene issues in, 144 -45, 146 -49, 155 -56;

Ibero-Hispanism and, 222 -23;

immigration to, 35 -37, 176 -77, 275 n41;

industrial transformation in, 33 , 274 nn22, 26;

landscape painting in, 112 , 114 -15;

local collection fairs in, 51 , 282 n26;

national image creation in, 158 -60, 249 -53;

nationalism-modernization linkage in, 247 -49;

natural history tradition in, 142 -44;

under Obregón, 202 -3;

patents registration in, 133 -34, 303 n53, 304 n54;

population statistics, 152 , 309 n62, 310 n63;

postrevolutionary national image of, 223 -24, 234 , 238 -39;

public administration study of, 137 -41, 304 n72, 305 nn79, 81;

Reform era of, 68 ;

scientific developments in, 126 -27;

social-economy issues in, 24 -25, 250 -51, 271 -72n42;

technocratic bureacracy in, 23 , 29 -30, 48 ;

as world's fair location, 44 -46.

See also Porfirian elites

México: su evoluci ón social (Sierra), 80 , 286 -87n14

M éxico a través de los siglos , 66 , 68 -69, 70 -71, 73 , 170 , 287 n15, 288 nn33, 34;

replacement of, 80

Mexico City: Paris vs., 169 -70;

as proposed fair location, 44 -46;

sanitation conditions in, 156 , 172 -73

M éxico en París (Godoy), 58 , 280 -81n2

El México Gráfico , 174

"Le Mexique, a la France" (Genin), 21 -22

Le Mexique a la portée des industriels, des capitalistes, des négociants importateurs et exportatuers et des travailleurs avec une carte du Mexique commerciale, boutière, minière et agricole (Bianconi), 58 , 284 n68

Le Mexique au début du XXe siècle (Levasseur, ed.), 59

Le Mexique, son pass é, son présent, son avenir (Cazeneuve), 58

Michelet, Jules de, 12 , 27 , 251

Mier, Sebastian B. de, 49 , 97 , 189 , 190 -91, 263 , 317 nn46, 47

Mier, Teresa de, 108

Mier y Celis, Antonia, 281 n11

Miltgen, Julio, 290 n59

Minas Gerais, 219

Mining École Supérieur (Paris), 133

Mining exhibits. See Extractive arts exhibits

Le Ministère de Finances (Josat), 305 n79

Ministry of Communication, 185

Ministry of Economic Development, 38 , 47 , 49 , 52 , 116 , 134 , 138 , 262

Ministry of Education, 207

Ministry of Finance, 54

Ministry of Justice and Public Education, 187 -88

Ministry of Public Works, 262

Ministry of Sanitation, 155

Ministry of War, 54

Miscegenation, 211 -12, 214 . See also

Race Modern Art Week (São Paulo), 201 , 209

Modernity: ambivalent view of, 10 -11, 189 -91, 194 -96, 316 n38;

of Brazilian intellectuals, 201 -2;

contradictory connotations of, 6 -7;

exotic/cosmopolitan element of, 81 -82, 83 -84, 114 -15;

fairs' representation of, 1 -3, 9 ;

nationalism's link to, xii -xiii, 82 , 247 -49;

style's construction of, 32 , 98 , 118 , 123 -24.

See also National image; Nationalism

Modern nation: classificatory structure of, 88 -89, 124 ;

continuities in construction of, 235 -37;

hygiene/sanitation issues of, 144 , 145 -46, 156 , 308 n33;

Indian past's synthesis with, 65 -67, 71 , 73 , 75 , 77 ;


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Mexico's debut as, 234 -35;

peace component of, 32 ;

Porfirian ideal of, xiii -xiv, 30 -32;

postrevolutionary versions of, 182 , 184 ;

public administration role of, 136 -37, 139 -41, 305 n85;

state's representation of, 40 -41, 51 -53, 282 n27;

statistical component of, 130 , 136 .

See also National image; Nationalism

Modotti, Tina, 233

Molina, Luis G., 55

Monografías de arquelogía mexicana: Teotihuacán; o, la ciudad sagrada de los Toltecas (Batres), 84

Montenegro, Roberto, 205 , 206 , 215

Montiel Olivera, J., 226

Montoya, Matilde, 309 n56

Monumento a la Patria (Mérida), 227 -28

Monumentos del arte mexicano antiguo (Peñafiel), 75 , 84 , 289 n45

Morales, José D., 153

Morales Pereira, Samuel, 152

Moreno, Roberto, 93 , 287 n20

Moreno Carbonero, José, 122

Moritz Rugendas, Johann, 282 n40

Morones, Luis N., 225 , 227 , 239

Murillo, Gerardo (pseud. Dr. Atl), 215 , 234

Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 133

Museo del Hospital Militar (Mexico City), 54

Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico City), 283 n41

Museo Nacional de Artillería, 182 , 314 nn6, 7

El Museo Nacional (film), 233

Musical machine (Paris 1855 exhibit), 43 , 278 -79n31

Musil, Robert, 247

Mythological representation: in Aztec Palace, 75 , 77 , 105 , 108

N

El Nacional , 99

Nahmad, Salomón, 293 n47

Nahuatl mythology, 105

Napoleon III, 18 , 44 , 47 , 165 -66

Nashville world's fair (1896), 85

National image: architectural ambivalence on, 97 -100, 102 -4, 193 -94, 208 , 321 n44;

Aztec Palace's presentation of, 64 -67, 71 , 73 , 75 , 77 ;

bronze sculpture and, 110 , 297 n60;

centralized articulation of, 82 -83, 243 -44, 246 -47, 252 -53;

domestic negotiation of, 245 -46;

goals in creation of, 249 -53, 330 n13;

hygiene's contribution to, 154 -55, 156 ;

as ideal/reality contradiction, 159 -60;

media's critique of idealized, 160 -62, 167 , 168 -69, 176 -78, 311 n4, 312 n9;

in México a través de los siglos , 70 -71;

Porfirian elites' production of, xii -xiii, 19 , 33 -34, 38 , 52 -54, 236 , 244 -45, 249 -50;

propaganda promotion of, 19 , 35 -36, 58 -59, 276 n44, 328 n68;

revolutionary movement's transformation of, 234 , 238 -40, 251 -52;

scientific character of, 125 -26, 130 -32, 173 -75;

Vasconcelos's conveyance of, 214 -15, 216 -19.

See also Modernity; Modern nation

Nationalism: as an anational phenomenon, 241 , 247 ;

anthropology's ties to, 90 -91;

continuities in construction of, 235 -37;

cosmopolitanism and, 8 , 9 , 71 , 96 -97;

French transformation of, 25 -26;

and identity, 244 , 329 n3;

modernity's link to, xii -xiii, 82 , 247 -49;

tradition-modernity dichotomy of, 248 -49;

universalist component of, 26 -27, 249 -50, 252 .

See also Modernity; Modern nation

National Medical Institute (Mexico), 142 , 144 , 148

La Naturaleza , 89 , 115 , 143

Natural history exhibits, 142 -44, 305 -6n4, 306 nn5, 6, 10;

media satirization of, 166 , 312 n21

Natural History Museum (Mexico), 143 , 306 n7

Natural Inheritance (Galton), 130

Naturalism, 26 , 115

Naturhistorisches Museum (Vienna), 133

Neocolonialism: as indigenist/Hispanic synthesis, 206 -7, 208 , 209 , 231 ;

national architecture and, 104 , 208 , 321 n44;

of Rio fair exhibits, 201 , 202 .

See also Hispanism

Nepaltzin, 128

Neri, Ramón P., 227 , 239

Nervo, Amado, 167 , 168 , 174 , 196 , 198 , 216 , 312 n29

New Orleans fair (1884), 38 ;

awards at, 278 n26;

financing for, 17 , 40 -41;

Mexican exhibits at, 25 , 59 , 142 -43, 306 n5


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New Orleans fair (1885), 277 n12

Newspapers. See Media

New York Herald , 279 n38

New York Times , 39

New York world's fair (1939), 198

Nezahualcoyotl (Aztec hero), 77 , 105 , 108

Nicaragua, 18

Nicaraguan Canal project, 40

Nicolai, Georg Friedrich, 211 , 322 n54

Nicolet, Claude, 125

Noel, Martin S., 327 n53

Noriega cigarette company, 175 -76

North, Central, and South American Exposition (1885, New Orleans), 277 n12

Notes sur le Mexique (Genin), 281 n19

Noticias climatológicas de la República, recopiladas pot la Secretaría de Fomento, para la formación de la Geografía Médica Mexicana (Ramírez and Rodriguez Rivera), 151 -52

Nouvelle pharmacopée mexicaine (Herrera), 306 n10

Novo, Salvador, 234 , 328 n68

Nuncio, Albino R., 186 , 187 , 197 , 315 n27

O

Obregón, Álvaro, 202 , 203 -4, 205 , 212 , 223 , 319 n19, 323 n73

Obregón, José, 41 , 55 , 118 --19

Obregonistas, 223

Obregón Santacilia, Carlos, 206 , 209 , 217 , 225 , 320 n30

Obreristas group, 239

Ocampo, Cayetano, 55

O'Gorman, Edmundo, 246

Olaguíbel, Manuel de, 58

Olaguíbel y Aristas, Carlos de, 151

Olavarría y Ferrari, Enrique de, 68

Omaha world's fair (1898), 186

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Darwin), 92

Opúsculo sobre el real de San Lázaro o elefantiásis de los griegos (Lucio), 149

Orientalism. See Exoticism

The Origins of Mexican Nationalism (Brading), 286 n5

Orozco Ramírez, Francisco, 227 , 233 , 326 -27n39

Orozco y Berra, Manuel, 67 , 77 , 108 , 130 , 293 n44

Orquesta Típica Torreblanca, 216

Ortega, Juan, 55

Ortega y Gasset, José, 3

Ortiz de Montellano, Bernardo, 234 , 326 n25

Ortiz Rubio, Pascual, 223 , 227

Orvañanos, Domingo, 23 , 148 ;

disease study of, 251 , 152 -53, 309 n61, 310 n68;

on prostitution regulations, 150

Ory, Pascal, 23

Otero, Mariano, 29

Ottoman reformers, 67 -68

"Our Facade in Paris: Sketches of the Universal Exposition" (cartoon), 170

P

El pabellón de México en la Exposición Ibero-Americana de Sevilla (Amabilis), 327 n42

Pacheco, Carlos: exhibition team and, 50 , 51 , 60 , 62 , 77 , 271 -72n42;

media criticism of, 166 , 312 n9;

Río de la Loza and, 143 -44;

on small producers, 52 ;

statistical department of, 129

Paez, F., 134

Paintings: accuracy-effectiveness paradox and, 120 -21;

European impressions of Mexican, 112 , 121 , 222 -23, 300 n102;

French classicist, 122 ;

landscape, 112 , 114 -16;

neocolonial, 206 ;

photography vs., 117 ;

populist theme of, 230 -31, 327 n51;

pre-Hispanic motifs of, 118 -21

Palace of Electricity (Paris 1900 exhibit), 102 , 189 -90

Panama Canal, 18 , 25

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915, San Francisco), 63 , 196 -98

Pan American Exhibition (1901). See Buffalo world's fair

Pani, Alberto J, 156 , 212 , 319 n19

Paraguay, 18

Paris, 12 , 169 -70

Paris Universal Exhibition (1867), 44 , 100 , 144 , 279 n35

Paris Universal Exhibition (1889): anthropological research focus of, 85 , 87 ;

awards at, 21 , 58 , 59 -60, 64 , 121 , 122 , 131 , 191 , 302 n37;

budgets for, 16 , 17 , 43 , 49 -50, 189 , 262 , 263 , 281 nn7, 9;

catalogue of, 54 , 282 n38;

classicist French painting at, 122 ;

demolition of, 181 ;

European boycott of, 17 ;

exhibit categories at, 55 -58, 283 n56;

exoticist aspects of, 7 , 18 , 81 -82, 83 -85, 290 nn3, 5;

immigration goals of, 35 -36, 37 ;

inventions at, 134 -35, 304 n58;

Latin American participants at, 18 -19;

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critiques of, 161 -64;

as modernity model, 16 , 269 n5;

national image production at, xii -xiii, 34 , 52 -54;

patent protections at, 134 , 304 n54;

product classification at, 15 , 269 n4;

propaganda network for, 35 -36, 37 , 58 -59, 276 n44, 284 n72;

social concerns of, 22 -23, 24 .

See also Aztec Palace; Mexican exhibits (Paris 1889); Porfirian exhibition team; Sculptures (Aztec Palace)

Paris Universal Exhibition (1900): ambivalent modernity of, 189 -91, 194 -96, 316 n38;

awards at, 110 , 191 , 315 n27;

budget for, 17 , 189 ;

Contreras's proposal for, 191 -92;

economy's impact on, 184 ;

exhibits at, 23 , 127 , 144 , 271 n39;

media agent for, 59 ;

media critiques of, 162 , 166 ;

neoclassical pavillion of, 97 , 193 -94;

Amado Nervo on, 198

Paris world's fair (1855), 6 , 23 , 27 , 71

Paris world's fair (1878), 44 , 47 , 279 n38, 280 n48, 282 n39

Paris world's fair (1937), 236 , 237 -38

Parra, Porfirio, 153

Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR), 223

Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), 223

Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del, 85 , 105

Pasteur, Louis, 138 , 145 , 146

Pasteur Institute, 282 n26

Patents, 133 -34, 135 , 303 nn51, 53, 304 n54

Payno, Manuel, 50 , 68 , 123

Paz, Ireneo, 58 , 61 , 167 -68, 176 , 284 n65, 312 n29

Peace, significance of, 32

Pedro II (emperor of Brazil), 200

Pelados (shorn ones), 215 , 323 n66

Pellicer, Carlos, 205 , 216 , 217

Peñafiel, Antonio: architectural synthesis of, 100 ;

Aztec Palace design of, 66 , 73 , 75 , 94 -95, 289 n43;

book exhibits of, 84 , 187 , 315 n29;

exhibition team peers of, 50 ;

on history of statistics, 128 -29;

hygiene role of, 148 -49, 153 , 308 n45;

media criticism of, 168 -69, 172 ;

sculptural representations of, 105 , 108

Pérez Treviño, Manuel, 202 , 203 -4

Peru, 327 n53

Pessoa, Epitácio, 201 , 203 , 209 , 214 , 319 n16

Petit Trianon of Versailles (Rio fair replica), 201

Philadelphia fair (1876), 38 ;

awards at, 282 n39;

financing for, 17 , 39 , 277 n9;

Mexican exhibits at, 25 , 39 -40, 115 , 277 n8;

Pedro II and, 200

Photography, 116 , 117 -18

Physicians. See Medical profession

Picard, Alfred, 4 , 23 , 49 -50, 59 , 144 , 271 n39, 281 n9

Picasso, Pablo, 237

Picq (architect), 97

Pimentel, Francisco, 36 , 212

Piquerons Cotolí, Manuel, 327 n53

Plancarte, Antonio, 170

Plano geológico del Peñón de los Baños donde se encontró el hombre fósil prehistórico (Paris 1889 exhibit), 132

PNR (Partido Nacional Revolucionario), 223

Poèmes aztèques (Genin), 281 n19

Poincaré, Émile, 310 n68

Pola, Angel, 168

Ponce, Manuel M., 234

Popular art, 215 , 323 n71

Popular patriotisms, 247

Porfirian elites: ambivalence toward Indian past, 88 , 121 ;

class structure of, 88 -89;

exhibition team of, 62 -63;

foreign investment goals of, 33 , 34 , 126 ;

French idealization by, xii , 12 , 20 -22;

homogeneity of, 29 , 246 -47;

hygienists as, 153 -54, 155 -56;

immigration policy of, 35 -37, 126 , 300 n7;

industrial development by, 33 , 274 n26;

as masters of form/style, 4 , 32 , 60 -61;

media criticism of, 99 , 160 -62, 164 -68, 173 , 174 -75, 312 n10;

Mexico City fair project of, 44 -46;

modern nation formula of, xiii , xiv , 30 -32;

national history enterprise of, 68 -71, 95 , 286 nn11, 12, 13, 287 n15;

national image production by, xii -xiv, 19 , 33 -34, 52 -54, 236 , 244 -45, 249 -50;

occupational makeup of, 273 n6;

postrevolutionary national image vs., 249 -52;

propaganda network of, 58 -59;

social economy indifference of, 24 -25, 250 -51;

technocratic governance of, 23 , 29 -30

Porfirian exhibition team: budget commission of, 280 -81n2, 281 n8;

budget submission by, 49 -50, 281 nn7, 8;

Huerta regime and, 196 -97;

internal conflicts of, 60 -62, 77 -78;

lobbying for awards,


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59 -60;

members of, 50 -51, 255 -60, 281 n11;

product display directors of, 50 , 281 n12;

recruitment/development of, 48 -49;

as Rio fair model, 205

Portes Gil, Emilio, 223 , 224

Portugal, 17

El porvenir de las naciones latinoamericanas (Bulnes), 176

Positivism, 20 -21, 26 , 31 , 115 , 128 , 218 -19

Possonnier, Charles, 84

Pradilla, Francisco, 122

Prescott, William H., 67

PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional), 223

Primo de Rivera, Miguel, 220 , 222

Product groups (Paris 1889), 15 , 50 , 51 , 269 n4, 281 n12

Progress: contemporaneity and, 5 -6;

scientific/industrial foundations of, 2 , 116 , 126 ;

selective manifestation of, 6 -7, 9 -10;

and transformation of fairs, 10 -11.

See also Modern nation

Propaganda: films, 233 , 328 nn69, 70;

media on, 166 , 176 -77;

newspaper contribution to, 51 , 59 , 167 -68;

Paris 1889 costs of, 58 ;

to promote immigration, 19 , 35 -36, 37 , 176 -77, 276 n44;

on public administration, 137 -41, 304 n72;

published works of, 58 -59, 284 nn68, 72, 328 n68

Prostitution regulation, 150

Prussia, 22

Public administration: Busto's study of, 137 -40, 305 nn79, 81;

corruption issues in, 140 -41, 305 n85;

as scientific endeavor, 23 , 29 -30, 54 , 136 , 304 n66;

state intervention in, 137 , 138 , 140 , 305 n77

Public works, 53

Puente curvo del Ferrocarril Mexicano en la Cañada de Metlac (Velasco), 115

Pugibet, Ernesto, 57 , 134 , 175 , 304 n54

Pulque beverage, 118 , 121

Putnam, F. W. 185

Q

Quatrefages, Armand de, 92

Quetelet, Adolphe, 129 , 301 n21

Quevedo, Miguel Angel de, 148

R

Rabasa, Emilio, 174

Race: anthropological approaches to, 89 -92, 93 -94, 132 , 292 n31;

class structure presentation of, 88 -89;

nationalistic concerns over, 82 -83, 91 , 156 ;

population breakdown by, 152 , 310 n63;

Vasconcelos's theories of, 211 -12, 214 , 218 -19.

See also Indians; Indigenism

Railroad construction, 33

Railroad paintings, 115 -16

La Ramera (Acuña), 150

Ramirez, Fausto, 73 , 96 , 115 , 289 n43, 296 nn37, 42

Ramirez, José, 23 , 88 , 148 -49, 151 , 153 , 280 -81n2, 308 n44, 310 n75

Ramírez, Leandro, 134

Ramírez, Rodolfo, 226

Ramírez, Santiago, 40

Ramírez de Arrellano, Nicolás, 153

Ramos, José M., 226

Raygados Vetiz, José, 215

La Raza, 182 , 184

La raza cósmica (The Cosmic Race , Vasconcelos), 204 , 217 , 323 n67

Razo, Rómulo, 227 , 228

Rebull, Santiago, 41 , 55 , 281 n12

Reclus, Elisée, 12 , 59

La Régie (tobacco company), 57

Reglamento económico (Bablot), 61 -62

Renacimiento group, 98

Renan, Ernest, 69

Repide, Pedro de, 231

Republicanism, 5 , 25

Revista de las Españas , 221

Revista de Revistas , 215

La Revista Moderna , 195 -96

La Revue Diplomatique , 18 , 269 n17

Reyes, Agustín, 153

Reyes, Bernardo, 50 , 196

Reyes, Rodolfo, 231

Reyes, Victor, 226 , 229 -31, 232 , 327 n51, 328 n61

Reyes, Vincente, 66 , 73

Rhetoric: of Porfirian political culture, 4 , 32 , 60 -62

Riguzzi, Paolo, 262

Rio de Janeiro, 203 -4, 219 , 318 n3, 323 n67

Rio de Janeiro world's fair (1922): awards at, 215 -16;

budgets for, 319 nn4, 5, 323 n73;

Cuauhtémoc monument replica at, 205 , 212 -14, 322 n60;

exhibit supervision at, 204 -5;

Mexico's national image at, 216 -19;

neocolonial style of, 201 , 202 , 206 -7, 208 , 209 ;

popular art at, 215 ,


371

323 n71;

sanitation focus of, 200 , 318 n3;

U.S. interest in, 203

Río de la Loza, Francisco, 143 -44, 306 n15

Río de la Loza, Leopoldo, 143 -44

Río de la Loza, Maximino, 134 , 143 , 304 n54

Ríos, E. M. de los, 37

Ríos, Fernando de los, 233

Riva Palacio, Vicente, 80 ;

Darwinism of, 93 , 287 n20;

Porfirio Díaz and, 24 ;

history texts of, 68 -69, 287 nn15, 17;

media satirization of, 170 ;

mestizo nation of, 69 -70;

Ireneo Paz and, 284 n65

Rivas Mercado, Antonio, 55 , 101

Rivera, Diego, 197 , 230

Rivera (exhibitor), 134

Rivero, M., 57

Robelo, Cecilio A., 296 n49

Rochard, Jules, 145

Rodin, Auguste, 190

Rodó, José Enrique, 208 , 222

Rodríguez, Francisco, 103

Rodríguez Rivera, Ramón, 49 , 151

Rodríguez y Arangoity, Ramón, 45 , 194 , 317 n53

Romero Rubio, Carmen (Mrs. Porfirio Díaz), 25 , 50 , 184

Romero Rubio, Manuel, 29

Rosenzweig, Alfonso de, 205

Rousseau, E., 78 -79

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 4

Rubio, Romero, 33 , 171

"Rue du Caire" (Paris 1889 exhibit), 82 , 173

Ruelas, Julio, 197

Ruinas de Yucatán (film), 233

Ruiz, Carlos R., 280 -81n2

Ruiz, Luis E., 150

Ruiz y Sandoval, Gustavo, 151

Russia, 17

Russian Revolution (1917), 240

S

Sáenz, Aarón, 223 , 233

Sáenz, Francisco, 226 , 227 , 231 -32

Sáenz, Moisés, 235

Sahagún, Bernardino de, 67 , 108 , 289 n43

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 297 n60

Saint Louis world's fair (1904). See Louisiana Purchase International Exposition

Saint-Simonianism, 10 , 23

Sala, George A. H., 123 , 300 n102

Salado Álvarez, Victoriano, 196

Salazar, Luis, 187 ;

Aztec Palace proposal of, 66 , 73 , 103 -4, 289 n41, 296 n42;

Contreras and, 61 ;

Paris 1889 role of, 23 , 280 -81n2;

pre-Hispanic style and, 100 , 103 , 296 n41;

professional background of, 102

San Antonio fair (1909), 189

Sánchez Solis, Felipe, 118

San Francisco world's fair (1915), 63 , 196 -98

Sanitation. See Hygiene

San Juan Teotihuacán (film), 233

Santa (Gamboa), 150

Santos y Cía, Eduardo, 281 n8

São Paulo, 201 -2, 219

Schálvelzon, Daniel, 279 n35

Schnetz, E., 160 , 311 n4

Science: Mexican developments in, 125 -27;

Mexican envoys of, 148 -49, 308 nn44, 45;

modernity's foundation on, 2 , 3 , 126 ;

Porfirian conception of, 31 ;

propaganda books on, 58 ;

public character of, 173 -75;

social economy applications of, 144 -46, 307 n25;

of statistics, 127 -30, 136 , 301 nn10, 21, 26, 302 nn27, 30;

women's exclusion from, 150 -51, 309 n56.

See also Hygiene; Public administration

Scientific Commission of Mexico, 91

Scraping machines, 134 , 304 n58

Sculptures (Aztec Palace): as national

identity renderings, 75 , 77 , 105 , 108 , 110 ;

storage/relocation of, 182 , 314 nn6, 7, 10;

use of bronze in, 110 , 297 n60

Seler, Edward, 75 , 289 n43

El Senado de Tlaxcala (Gutiérrez), 55 , 84 , 118 , 119

Sentíes, Pedro, 50 , 129

Septien, Manuel, 155 -56

Serrano, F. R., 233 -34

Serrano, M., 184

Severo, Ricardo, 209

Seville Universal Exposition (1992), 268 n23

Seville world's fair (1929), 324 -25n2;

awards at, 234 , 328 n74;

budgets for, 224 , 225 , 326 n23;

cultural continuities of, 235 -37, 238 -39;

Ibero-Americanism goal of, 220 -21;

Latin 'American exhibits at, 222 , 231 , 327 n53;

Mexican delegation to, 226 -27;

modernized Hispanism of, 221 -23;

propaganda on, 233 , 328 nn68, 70 ;

romanticized Revolution at, 224 , 232 -33, 326 n25;

Toltec-Maya exhibit at, 225 , 326 n33.

See also Mexican Pavilion (Seville 1929)


372

Shapiro, Ann-Louise, 307 n25

Sierra, Justo, 20 , 21 , 29 , 55 , 284 n72, 286 -87n14, 287 n15

Sierra, Santiago, 20 , 29

Social economy: French focus on, 22 -23, 271 n39;

Porfirian indifference to, 24 -25, 250 -51;

state intervention in, 144 -45.

See also Hygiene

Sociedad Mexicana de Consumo, 45

Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, 129 , 131

Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, 143

Société Cali, 78

Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 92

Société des Études Pratiques d 'Économie Sociale , 144

Soriano, Manuel S., 150

Sosa, Julio, 232

Spain, 17 , 35 , 208 -9, 223 , 325 -26n22

Spanish-American War (1898), 220 -21, 222

Spanish Conquest, 67 , 68 , 69 , 77

"The Spanish Town" (Barcelona exhibit), 220

Spencer, Herbert, 211 , 293 n48

Stacy-Judd, Robert B., 329 n78

Statistics, 127 -30, 136 , 301 nn10, 21, 26, 302 nn27, 30

"Statistics and History of the Mexican Republic" (Garcia Cubas), 132

Steiner, George, 190

"Streets of Mexico" (Buffalo exhibit), 85 , 173 , 291 n21

Sullivan, Louis, 185

Superior Sanitation Council. See Consejo Superior de Salubridad

Sweden, 17

Switzerland, 177

T

Tablada, José Juan, 234

Taine, Hippolyte, 20 -21

Tarascan Indians, 93

Tarditti, Carlos, 206

Technocracy: governmental role of, 23 , 29 -30. See also Porfirian elites

Tello, Othón, 314 n17

Tenorio, Adolfo, 55

Tepoztecaconetzin Calquetzani (pseud.), 103

Textile fabrics exhibits (Paris 1889), 56 -57

Textile industry, 33 , 274 n26

Thompson, E. H., 185

Tiffany Company (New York), 2o5, 320 nn25, 26

Tlaloc (god), 77 , 105

Tolsa, Manuel, 314 n10

Tomassi, Leopoldo, 226 , 228

Toro, Alfonso del, 215

Torre Díaz, Alonso, 201 , 205 , 209 , 217 , 319 n16

Torres Bodet, Jaime, 233

Torri, Julio, 205 , 217

Totoquihuatzin (Aztec hero), 77 , 105 , 108

Toussaint, Manuel, 234

Tout-d'Union , 17

Traité d'hygiène sociale (Rochard), 145

Trans-Mississippi International Exposition (1898, Omaha), 186

Trejo Lerdo de Tejada, Carlos, 323 n74

Treviño, Angel, 308 n45

Trocadero Museum (Paris), 78 , 282 n26

El trompo de siete colores (Ortiz de Montellano), 234

Tuxtepec rebellion, 39

20th International Congress of Americanists, 214 -15

U

United States: architectural style of, 201 , 327 n53;

emigration from, 35 , 39 ;

fair participation goals of, 19 , 40 , 196 ;

as immigrant destination, 37 , 176 , 276 n53;

Mexican investment by, 34 , 275 n33;

national image of, 135 , 250 ;

propaganda from, 233 , 328 n69;

San Francisco fair in, 196 -97;

world's fair budgets of, 17 , 281 n9, 312 n23, 319 n4;

world's fair participation by, 43 , 203 , 221 , 319 n15, 325 n10

Universalism: fairs' expression of, 1 -4, 15 , 269 n4;

French tradition of, 16 , 17 -18;

of national image model, 26 -27, 249 -50, 252

University of California (Berkeley), 282 n26

University of London, 282 n26

University of Texas (Austin), 282 n26

Urbina, Luis G., 233 , 234

Uruguay, 18

V

Valadés, José C., 286 n11, 287 n15

Valdés, Rodrigo, 49 , 50 , 54 , 148

Valenzuela, Jesús E., 196 , 317 n61

Vallarta, Ignacio L., 44

El Valle Nacional (tobacco factory), 57 , 175

Varigny, C. de, 83 -84

Vasconcelos, José: awards to, 234 ;

on British


373

pavilion, 206 , 320 n31;

budget requests by, 323 n73;

on Cuauhtémoc monument, 205 , 212 -14, 322 n60;

on immigration, 37,276 n53;

Latin America prestige of, 204 , 216 , 323 n74;

messianic Hispanism of, 214 -15, 218 -19, 324 n80;

neocolonial synthesis of, 206 -7, 208 , 209 ;

on popular art, 215 ;

presidential campaign of, 223 , 224 , 229 ;

race theories of, 211 -12, 214 , 218 -19;

as Rio delegate, 202 , 204 , 217 , 319 n19;

utopian Brazil of, 219 , 323 n67, 324 n85

Vázquez, Josefina, 286 n 13

Vázquez del Mercado, Alejandro, 217

Vázquez Schiaffiano, José, 215 , 217

Velarde, Juan Andrés, 303 n51

Velasco, Emilio, 47

Velasco, Idelfonso, 147

Velasco, José Maria, 41 , 50 ;

awards to, 121 , 122 ;

Léon Cahun on, 112 , 114 , 115 ;

on French art, 96 , 122 -23, 300 n104;

interest in photography, 298 n80;

paintings of, 114 -16, 117 , 118 , 144 ;

prominence of, 55 , 282 nn39, 40, 283 nn41, 45, 288 n33

Velázquez, José María, 50

Velez, Carlos, 197

Venezuela, 19

Veracruz invasion, 197

Verlaine, Paul, 26

Verne, Jules, 135

Vianna, Victor, 216

Vigil, José María, 68 , 184

Villa-Lobos, Heitor, 201

Villaurrutia, Xavier, 234

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène, 85 , 100 -101

El virreinato (volume II of México a través de los siglos ), 69

W

Waite, C. B., 197 , 291 n21

Waldeck, Jean Frederic, 73

Weber, Max, 137

Wilson, Henry Lane, 197

Wilson, Woodrow, 196 , 197

Wizards of progress. See Porfirian elites; Porfirian exhibition team

Women: exhibits on, 24 -25, 41 , 184 ;

forums' exclusion of, 150 -51, 309 n56;

scientific studies of, 149 -50

Woolf, Virginia, 10

Working class: modernist emphasis on, 22 -23

World's fairs: capitalist use of, 84 -85, 175 -76;

as celebration of freedom, 4 -5;

ethnographic focus of, 84 -85, 291 nn21, 23;

exoticism aspects of, 7 -8, 81 -82, 290 n5;

Hispanism's ties to, 222 ;

historical vantage point of, 1 ;

immigration/investment goals of, 19 , 126 ;

late-twentieth-century, 11 -12, 268 n23;

Latin American participation in, 18 -19, 40 ;

Mexico City location for, 44 -46;

Mexico's budgets for, 262 -65;

Mexico's participation in early, 43 -44, 278 nn27, 28, 31, 279 nn34, 35, 279 nn38, 40;

as modernity representations, xi -xii, 1 -3, 6 -10, 16 , 269 n5;

national image production at, xii -xiii, 33 -34;

natural history displays at, 142 -44, 305 -6n4, 306 nn5, 6, 306 nn7, 10;

radical transformation of, xiii , 10 -12, 198 -99, 268 n23;

scientific developments and, 125 -27;

social issues at, 22 -23, 24 -25;

state financing of, 16 -17, 39 , 40 -41, 277 n9.

See also Awards ; Budgets; individual fairs

World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884). See New Orleans fair (1884)

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 185 , 315 n21, 329 n78

X

Xochicalco temple (Paris 1867 replica), 44 , 279 n35

Xochiquetzal (god), 77 , 105 , 108

Xochitl presenta al rey Tépancalzin el pulque (Obregón), 118

Y

Yacatecuhtli (god), 77 , 105 , 108

Yeager, G., 262

Yellow fever, 149 , 153

Yucatán, 304 n58

Yucatán: La tierra del afamado henequén (film), 233

Z

Zamacona, Manuel Maria de, 45

Zárate, Eduardo, 50 , 56 , 61 -62, 77 , 290 n3

Záirate,Julio, 68

Zayas Enríquez, Rafael de, 21 , 34 , 88 , 176 , 281 nn11, 19, 290 n3

Zola, Émile, 26


 

Preferred Citation: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio. Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1996 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2k4004k4/