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

Blackmore, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822964384 ISBN 13 : 9780822964384

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship.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 consumer culture—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, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lisa Blackmore is lecturer of art history and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Essex and the author of Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822964384
• ISBN 13: 9780822964384
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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