Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics

by Luis M. Castañeda

Book Overview

In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico's arrival in the developed world. In Spectacular Mexico, Luis M. Casta?eda demonstrates how these projects were used to create a spectacle of social harmony and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816690790
• ISBN13: 9780816690794
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 8.9"