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Spectacular Modernity : Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 /

"An analysis of how a decade of military rule in Venezuela produced a dominant ideology of progress so meticulously crafted that to this day audacious Modernist art and architecture and dictatorship are conflated under the term 'modernity'"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blackmore, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rethinking the Politics and Aesthetics of Modernity
  • Part I. Official Libretto
  • Telling Stories : The Historiographical Foundations of Military Rule
  • Ruling Ideology : Radical Transformations of Space and Body
  • Part II. Setting the Scene
  • Nation Branding : From Covert Propaganda to Corporate Publicity
  • Spectacular Visuality : Enframing the Landscape, Training the Gaze
  • Exhibiting Modernity : Cultures of Display and the Dictator's Visionary Gaze
  • Part III. Performing Progress
  • Subjects on Stage : Organized Walking in Scripted Spaces
  • Bringing Progress Home : Modern Mythologies in Daily Life
  • Epilogue: Specters of Spectacle.