
Images of Power
Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of 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. āArgentina in the Worldā
- Part III. Masses and Monumentality
- Chapter 8. āCold as the Stone of which it Must be Madeā
- Chapter 9. Photography, Memory, Disavowal
- Chapter 10. Mass and Multitude
- Part IV. Spaces of Flight and Capture
- Chapter 11. Marconi and other Artifices
- Chapter 12. Desert Dreams
- Chapter 13. Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles
- Notes on Contributors
- Index