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Errant modernism : the ethos of photography in Mexico and Brazil / Esther Gabara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gabara, Esther, 1972-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Photography.
- Photography--Social aspects--Brazil.
- Literature and photography--Mexico.
- Literature and photography.
- Literature and photography--Brazil.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--Mexico.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines photographs, mixed media essays, and experimental literature from two of the most influential modernist avant-garde movements in Latin America, proposing a theory of modernism that addresses the intersection of ethics and aesthetics.
- Contents:
- 1 Landscape : Errant Modernist Aesthetics in Brazil
- 2 Portraiture: Facing Brazilian Primitivism
- 3 Mediation: Mass Culture, Popular Culture, Modernism
- 4 Essay: Las Bellas Artes Publicas, Photography, and Gender in Mexico
- 5 Fiction: Photographic Fictions, Fictional Photographs
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "A John Hope Franklin Center Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822343233
- 0822343231
- 9781299804135
- 1299804136
- OCLC:
- 320536073
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