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Images of power : iconography, culture and the state in Latin America / edited by Jens Andermann and William Rowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Remapping cultural history.
- Remapping cultural history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--Latin America.
- Arts and society.
- Nationalism and art--Latin America.
- Nationalism and art.
- Visual communication--Latin America.
- Visual communication.
- Communication and the arts--Latin America.
- Communication and the arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2005.
- Summary:
- In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is ... [an] attempt by cultural, historical, and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Images of Power; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Memory and the Public Arena; Chapter 1. From Royal Subject to Citizen; Chapter 2. The Mexican Codices and the Visual Language of Revolution; Chapter 3. Subversive Needlework; Chapter 4. Material Memories; Part II. Self and Other in the Avant-Garde; Chapter 5. Exoticism, Alterity, and the Ecuadorean Elite; Chapter 6. Primitivist Iconographies; Chapter 7. 'Argentina in the World'; Part III. Masses and Monumentality; Chapter 8. 'Cold as the Stone of which it Must be Made'; Chapter 9. Photography, Memory, Disavowal; Chapter 10. Mass and Multitude
- Part IV. Spaces of Flight and CaptureChapter 11. Marconi and other Artifices; Chapter 12. Desert Dreams; Chapter 13. Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781571815330
- 1571815333
- 9781845452124
- 1845452127
- 9781782388630
- 178238863X
- OCLC:
- 995359714
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