Spectacular Modernity : Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 Paperback / softback
by Lisa Blackmore
Part of the Illuminations series
Paperback / softback
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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Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship.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 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:24/04/2017
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- ISBN:9780822964384
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:24/04/2017
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- ISBN:9780822964384