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City/art : the urban scene in Latin America / Rebecca E. Biron, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Latin America.
- City and town life.
- Public art--Latin America.
- Public art.
- Street art--Latin America.
- Street art.
- City planning--Latin America.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An interdisciplinary collection exploring how creative practices broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, and performance art, continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America.
- Contents:
- City/art : setting the scene / Rebecca E. Biron
- What is a city? / Nestor Garcia Canclini
- Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, too / Adrian Gorelik
- The spirit of Brasilia : modernity as experiment and risk / James Holston
- City, art, politics / Nelly Richard
- The writing on the wall : urban cultural studies and the power of aesthetics
- Marcy Schwartz, Miami Remake, Jose Quiroga
- The Jew in the city : Buenos Aires in Jewish fiction / Amy Kaminsky
- On maps and malls / Hugo Achugar
- Culture-based urban development in Rio de Janeiro / George Yudice
- Latin American megacities : the new urban formlessness / Nelson Brissac Peixoto.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-03572-3
- 9786613035721
- 0-8223-9073-6
- OCLC:
- 434869143
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