Images of Power : : Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America / / ed. by William Rowe, Jens Andermann.
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, ...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2004 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Remapping Cultural History ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction The Power of Images
- Part I Memory and the Public Arena
- Chapter 1 From Royal Subject to Citizen: The Territory of the Body in Eigtheenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Visual Practices
- Chapter 2 The Mexican Codices and the Visual Language of Revolution
- Chapter 3 Subversive Needlework: Gender, Class and History at Venezuela’s National Exhibition, 1883
- Chapter 4 Material Memories: Tradition and Amnesia in Two Argentine Museums
- Part II Self and Other in the Avant-Garde
- Chapter 5 Exoticism, Alterity, and the Ecuadorean Elite: The Work of Camilo Egas
- Chapter 6 Primitivist Iconographies: Tango and Samba, Images of the Nation
- Chapter 7 ‘Argentina in the World’: Internationalist Nationalism in the Art of the 1960s
- Part III Masses and Monumentality
- Chapter 8 ‘Cold as the Stone of which it Must be Made’: Caboclos, Monuments and the Memory of Independence in Bahia, Brazil, 1870–1900
- Chapter 9 Photography, Memory, Disavowal: the Casasola Archive
- Chapter 10 Mass and Multitude: Bastardised Iconographies of the Modern Order
- Part IV Spaces of Flight and Capture
- Chapter 11 Marconi and other Artifices: Long-Range Technology and the Conquest of the Desert
- Chapter 12 Desert Dreams: Nomadic Tourists and Cultural Discontent
- Chapter 13 Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles: Reflections on Mobility and Globality
- Notes on Contributors
- Index