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Author Jens Andermann; William Rowe

Title Images of power;iconography, culture and the state in latin america
Published New York : Berghahn Books

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Description 1 online resource
Series Remapping Cultural History ; v. 2
Remapping cultural history.
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
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
Subject Arts and society -- Latin America
Nationalism and art -- Latin America
Visual communication -- Latin America
Communication and the arts -- Latin America
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Arts and society
Communication and the arts
Nationalism and art
Visual communication
Latin America
Form Electronic book
ISBN 178238863X
9781782388630