Spectacular Mexico : design, propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics / Luis M. Castaneda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castañeda, Luis M., 1984- author.

Series:

A Quadrant Book

Quadrant Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and state--Mexico--History--20th century.

Architecture and state.

Architecture and society--Mexico--History--20th century.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Political aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.

Architecture.

Design--Political aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.

Design.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 301 páginas fotografías en blanco y negro 23 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, England : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Summary:

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. Castañeda demonstrates how these projects were used to create a spectacle of social harmony and ultimately to guide the nation's capital into becoming the powerful megacity we know today. Not only the first Latin American country to host the Olympics, but

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments Introduction: The Exhibitionist State; 1. Diplomatic Spectacles: Mexico Displays Itself at World's Fairs; 2. Archaeologies of Power: Assembling the Museo Nacional de Antropología 3. Image Machines: Mexico '68's "Old" and "New" Sports Facilities 4. Total Design of an Olympic Metropolis 5. Subterranean Scenographies: Time Travel at the Mexico City Metro Epilogue: Olympic Afterlives; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4244-7

OCLC:

899942138