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1 online resource. |
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Remapping Cultural History ; v. 2
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Remapping cultural history.
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Arts and society -- Latin America.
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Nationalism and art -- Latin America.
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Visual communication -- Latin America.
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Communication and the arts -- Latin America.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Arts and society |
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Communication and the arts |
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Nationalism and art |
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Visual communication |
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Latin America |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Andermann, Jens. Images of Power : Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America. New York, NY : Berghahn Books, ©2004 |
| ISBN |
178238863X (electronic bk.) |
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9781782388630 (electronic bk.) |
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