Lisa Blackmore 
Spectacular Modernity [EPUB ebook] 
Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958

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In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, <i>Spectacular Modernity</i> instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.

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<b>Lisa Blackmore</b> is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich and will join the school of philosophy and art history at the University of Essex as a lecturer in art history and interdisciplinary studies in 2017. She has taught at the University of Leeds, Universidad Simón Bolívar, and Universidad Central de Venezuela, and is coeditor of the forthcoming volume <i>El Helicoide: From Futuristic Mall to Panoptic Prison.</i>

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 380 ● ISBN 9780822982364 ● Mărime fișier 32.0 MB ● Editura University of Pittsburgh Press ● Oraș PIttsburgh ● Țară US ● Publicat 2017 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5846334 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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