{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.mexican-art","code":"thing-q6826005","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q6826005/","name":"Mexican art","alternateNames":["visual arts of Mexico","architecture of Mexico","architecture of Querétaro"],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Information and virtual systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"INF","domain":["INF.KNW"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Mexican art comprises the diverse visual and material artistic traditions associated with the territory of present-day Mexico and with Mexican communities, including Indigenous, colonial, modern and contemporary practices.","purpose":"Enable an agent to identify, contextualise and responsibly interpret Mexican art while distinguishing documented cultural relationships from assumed national identity.","scope":{"in":["Evidence and uncertainty supporting inclusion within Mexican art","Relationships among Indigenous, colonial, national, regional and diasporic artistic contexts","Media, techniques, iconography and artistic practices as contextual classification evidence","Competing interpretations of Mexican identity and artistic significance","Conditions governing interpretation, display, reproduction and culturally sensitive access"],"out":["Complete biographies or citizenship records of individual artists","Physical inventories and conservation treatment plans for individual objects","Comprehensive histories of Mexico or its Indigenous peoples","Legal ownership, copyright determinations and export permits for particular works","Edition, manifestation and item records for individual publications or reproductions"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Inclusion requires an explicit relationship to Mexico, its historical territories, communities or cultural networks; a Spanish-language title alone is insufficient.","An artist's nationality, a work's production location, its subject matter and its reception are separate grounds for association and must not be treated as interchangeable.","Mexican art is a cross-media cultural category, rather than a single medium, style or movement such as muralism.","Applying the label to art predating the Mexican nation requires an explicit retrospective geographic or curatorial rationale and preservation of the originating cultural attribution.","Indigenous, Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano and broader Latin American classifications may overlap, but none should be silently substituted for another."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"mexican-art-category-boundaries","name":"Mexican-art category boundaries","description":"Establishes what an attribution to Mexican art means and which evidence supports it.","layers":[{"id":"grounds-for-inclusion","name":"Grounds for inclusion","description":"Separates the different relationships through which art is associated with 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continuity, revival, adaptation and an external claim of tradition?","id":"community-specific-continuity-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"practices-images-and-artistic-lineages","name":"Practices, images and artistic lineages","description":"Connects techniques and imagery to documented artistic contexts within Mexican art.","layers":[{"id":"medium-and-making-context","name":"Medium and making context","description":"Relates material practices to workshops, teaching, community use and artistic classification.","findings":[{"id":"making-and-classification","name":"Making and classification","description":"Record locally meaningful practice names and the consequences of labels such as fine art, popular art or craft.","questions":[{"text":"What terms do makers use for this practice, and how do museum or market classifications differ?","id":"making-and-classification-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which workshop, teaching relationship or community context supports the proposed artistic lineage?","id":"making-and-classification-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"iconography-and-movement-attribution","name":"Iconography and movement attribution","description":"Separates visible features from claims about symbolism and movement membership.","findings":[{"id":"contextual-symbolic-reading","name":"Contextual symbolic reading","description":"Treat interpretations of Indigenous references, national imagery, devotional symbols or revolutionary subjects as claims requiring context.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence supports the proposed meaning of an image in this particular work and setting?","id":"contextual-symbolic-reading-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does attribution to Mexican muralism or another movement rest on documented participation, reception or only visual resemblance?","id":"contextual-symbolic-reading-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"patronage-publics-and-national-narratives","name":"Patronage, publics and national 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