Images of Power : : Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America / / ed. by Jens Andermann, William Rowe.

• MitwirkendeR: Andermann, Jens,; Bravo, Alvaro Fernández,; Brotherston, Gordon,; Canaparo, Claudio,; Carrera, Magali M.,; Garramuño, Florencia,; Giunta, Andrea,; Kraay, Hendrik,; Montaldo, Graciela,; Noble, Andrea,; Nouzeilles, Gabriela,; Pratt, Mary Louise,; Pérez, Trinidad,; Rowe, William,; Stephan, Beatriz González,
• HerausgeberIn: Andermann, Jens,; Rowe, William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Remapping Cultural History ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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.

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