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Zusatztext "Such a brief overview cannot do the essays in this collection justice. Amply illustrated and nicely organised! the collected essays represent some of the most innovative work being done in the field of visual culture in Latin America. Of particular value is the range of theoretical interests and perspectives brought to bear on visual culture by the contributors. This is theoretical and disciplinary eclecticism at its best. Each essay is refreshing and original and there is little redundancy despite the length of the book?For scholars working on visual culture! the state and cultural history! this is an essential volume." -Journal of Latin American Studies Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction: The Power of Images Jens Andermann and William Rowe PART I: MEMORY AND THE PUBLIC ARENA Chapter 1. From Royal Subject to Citizen: the Territory of the Body in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Visual Practices Magali M. Carrera Chapter 2. The Mexican Codices and the Visual Language of Revolution Gordon Brotherston Chapter 3. Subversive Needlework: Gender, Class and History at Venezueläs National Exhibition, 1883 Beatriz González Stephan (transl. Heike Vogt) Chapter 4. Material Memories: Tradition and Amnesia in two Argentine Museums Alv...
