| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas series
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Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Rethinking the Politics and Aesthetics of Modernity -- Part I. Official Libretto -- Telling Stories : The Historiographical Foundations of Military Rule -- Ruling Ideology : Radical Transformations of Space and Body -- Part II. Setting the Scene -- Nation Branding : From Covert Propaganda to Corporate Publicity -- Spectacular Visuality : Enframing the Landscape, Training the Gaze -- Exhibiting Modernity : Cultures of Display and the Dictator's Visionary Gaze -- Part III. Performing Progress -- Subjects on Stage : Organized Walking in Scripted Spaces -- Bringing Progress Home : Modern Mythologies in Daily Life -- Epilogue: Specters of Spectacle. |
| Summary |
"In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies--from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture--reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"An analysis of how a decade of military rule in Venezuela produced a dominant ideology of progress so meticulously crafted that to this day audacious Modernist art and architecture and dictatorship are conflated under the term 'modernity'"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1935-1958.
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Venezuela. |
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Politics and government. |
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1935-1958 |
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Venezuela -- Cultural policy.
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Cultural policy. |
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Spectacular, The -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
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Spectacular, The. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Architecture -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Political aspects. |
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Architecture. |
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Art -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
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Art -- Political aspects. |
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Aesthetics) |
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Social change -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
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Social change. |
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Military government -- Social aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
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Military government. |
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Social aspects. |
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Dictatorship -- Social aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
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Dictatorship. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blackmore, Lisa, Spectacular modernity 9780822964384 (DLC) 2017014490 (OCoLC)958781662 |
| ISBN |
9780822982364 (electronic book) |
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0822982366 (electronic book) |
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9780822964384 (paperback) (acid-free paper) |
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0822964384 (paperback) (acid-free paper) |
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