Images of Power

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Andermann, Jens , Rowe, William 저자(글)

Berghahn Books · 2006년 09월 01일

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'Images of Power' offers a critique of the iconography of the modern state in Latin America. Using case studies the text studies 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.
Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of theJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder : una arqueolog? literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US.
William Roweis Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His bookMemory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America(London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, arePoets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life(Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).
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.
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 the first concerted 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.

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저자(글) Andermann, Jens

Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueologIa literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US.

저자(글) Rowe, William

William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).

목차

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  List of Illustrations vii
  Introduction: The Power of Images 1(16)
  Jens Andermann and William Rowe
  Part I: Memory and the Public Arena
  1 From Royal Subject to Citizen: the Territory of the Body in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Visual Practices 17(19)
  Magali M. Carrera
  2 The Mexican Codices and the Visual Language of Revolution 36(15)
  Gordon Brotherston
  3 Subversive Needlework: Gender, Class and History at Venezuela's National Exhibition, 1883 (transl. Heike Vogt) 51(27)
  Beatriz Gonz?ez Stephan
  4 Material Memories: Tradition and Amnesia in two Argentine Museums 78(21)
  Alvaro Fern?dez Bravo
  Part II: Self and Other in the Avant-Garde
  5 Exoticism, Alterity and the Ecuadorean Elite: The Work of Camilo Egas (transl. Philip Derbyshire) 99(28)
  Trinidad P?ez
  6 Primitivist Iconographies: Tango and Samba, Images of the Nation 127(18)
  Florencia Garramu?
  7 'Argentina in the World': Internationalist Nationalism in the Art of the 1960's (transl. Emma Thomas) 145(20)
  Andrea Giunta
  Part III: Masses and Monumentality
  8 'Cold as the Stone of which it Must be Made': Caboclos, Monuments and the Memory of Independence in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1900 165(30)
  Hendrik Kraay
  9 Photography, Memory, Disavowal: the Casasola Archive 195(22)
  Andrea Noble
  10 Mass and Multitude: Bastardised Iconographies of the Modern Order 217(24)
  Graciela Montaldo
  Part IV: Spaces of Flight and Capture
  11 Marconi and other Artifices: Long-range Technology and the Conquest of the Desert (transl. Peter Cooke) 241(14)
  Claudio Canaparo
  12 Desert Dreams: Nomadic Tourists and Cultural Discontent (transl. Jens Andermann) 255(16)
  Gabriela Nouzeilles
  13 Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles: Reflections on Mobility and Globality 271(20)
  Mary Louise Pratt
  Notes on Contributors 291(4)
  Index 295

기본정보

ISBN	9781845452124 ( 1845452127 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 09월 01일
쪽수	320쪽
크기	152 * 229 * 17 mm / 417 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어