City/art : the urban scene in Latin America / Rebecca E. Biron, editor.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Biron, Rebecca E., 1964-

Series:

• e-Duke books scholarly collection.
• e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• City and town life--Latin America.
• Public art--Latin America.
• Street art--Latin America.
• City planning--Latin America.

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:

• 9786613035721
• 9781283035729
• 1283035723
• 9780822390732
• 0822390736

OCLC:

434869143