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, �...

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