City/art
Subtitle: the urban scene in Latin America
By: Rebecca E. Biron, editor.
Contributors: Biron, Rebecca E., 1964-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780822344551; 9780822344704
Subjects: City and town life -- Latin America; Public art -- Latin America; Street art -- Latin America; City planning -- Latin America
Description: "In City/Art anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists, describe how creativity - broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, performance art, and more - combines with nationalist rhetoric and historical discourse to define Latin American cities. Taken together, the essays model different ways of approaching Latin America's urban centers not only as places that inspire and house creative practices but also as ongoing collective creative endeavors themselves. The essays range from an examination of how differences of scale and point of view affect people's experience of everyday life in Mexico City to a reflection on the transformation of a prison into a shopping mall in Uruguay, and from an analysis of Buenos Aires's preoccupation with its own status and cultural identity to a consideration of what Miami means to Cubans in the United States."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: City/art : setting the scene / Rebecca E. Biron; title: What is a city? / Néstor García Canclini; title: Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, too / Adrián Gorelik; title: The spirit of Brasília : modernity as experiment and risk / James Holston; title: City, art, politics / Nelly Richard; title: The writing on the wall : urban cultural studies and the power of aesthetics; title: Marcy Schwartz, Miami Remake, José Quiroga; title: The Jew in the city : Buenos Aires in Jewish fiction / Amy Kaminsky; title: On maps and malls / Hugo Achugar; title: Culture-based urban development in Rio de Janeiro / George Yúdice; title: Latin American megacities : the new urban formlessness / Nelson Brissac Peixoto.