Love and politics / Alejandro Cartagena, book concept ; photographs : Fototeca de Nuevo León, CONARTE, Fondo Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León ; [edited by Fernando Gallegos and Alejandro Cartagena]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cartagena, Alejandro, 1977- book artist.

Centro de las Artes de Monterrey. Fototeca de Nuevo León, author.

Nuevo León (Mexico : State). Archivo General del Estado, author.

Contributor:

Cartagena, Alejandro, 1977- editor.

Gallegos, Fernando, editor.

Peredo, Ximena, 1981- writer of supplementary textual content.

Gato Negro Ediciones, publisher.

Centro de las Artes de Monterrey. Fototeca de Nuevo León, author.

Nuevo León (Mexico : State). Archivo General del Estado, author.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Fototeca de Nuevo León--Photography collections.

Fototeca de Nuevo León.

Nuevo León (Mexico : State). Archivo General del Estado--Photography collections.

Nuevo León (Mexico : State).

Documentary photography.

Politicians--Mexico--Nuevo León (State)--20th century--Pictorial works.

Politicians.

Nuevo León (Mexico : State)--Politics and government--20th century--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Artists' books -- Mexico -- 2010-2019.

Artists' books -- Latin America -- 2010-2019.

Physical Description:

6 volumes : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Mexico City : Crater Invertido.

Place of Publication:

Mexico City : Gato Negro Ediciones, 2021.

Language Note:

Includes texts in English and Spanish.

Summary:

A critical view of the relationship between political and corporate power and society during the "modernization" period of the city of Monterrey in the first half of the 20th century. OUR GUIDE is a book of portraits that ridicules the theatricality of politics, Alejandro Cartagena and Fernando Gallegos present a compendium of "cards" of power: the "chosenʺ sons from a god who is man, white and ostentatious. THE INAUGURATION portrays the romanceʺ relationship between the governing class and the State. The images that make up the book MUSIC FOR THE MASSES portray the rupture between what is legitime and has lost all meanings. For decades attending public gatherings with the President, governors or company directors, or appearing in a photo with them, were events that gave importance to common people. THE SUPERVISORS include images of "progress" of the city of Monterrey on the first half of the 20th century. "The territory as comodity of infinite possibilities that began with the psycho-magical presence of suited men (never women) with their fine hats and shoes." RITUALS OF LOVE presents the images of the theatricality to sustain political and corporate power. One of the psychomagical acts of the first anointments of modern corporate power was to attach pins to the suit lapel, a gesture that clothed them with power. These gentelmen raised their hand taking an oath of loyalty and service and could demand obidience from others. FOR OUR CHILDREN comprises images of zoos and parks from the first half of the 20th century in the city of Monterrey when flora and fauna were became tools of modernization, converted into a product of the period's notion of childhood, who without a politcal voice, enjoy this space "because the rest of the city doesn't belong to them".

Contents:

Vol. I. Our Guide

Vol. II. The Inauguration

Vol. III. Music for the Masses

Vol. IV. The Supervisors

Vol. V. Rituals of Love Vol. VI. For our Children.

Notes:

Title from cover.

Risograph printed.

OCLC:

1371686029