Images of power
Subtitle: iconography, culture and the state in Latin America
By: edited by Jens Andermann and William Rowe.
Contributors: Andermann, Jens.; Rowe, William.
Series: Remapping cultural history; Remapping cultural history
Publisher: Berghahn; Berghahn Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781845452124
Subjects: Arts and society -- Latin America; Nationalism and art -- Latin America; Visual communication -- Latin America; Communication and the arts -- Latin America
Description: 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 ... [an] 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.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.