Images of Power

Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Power of ImagesJens Andermann and William RowePART I: MEMORY AND THE PUBLIC ARENAChapter 1. From Royal Subject to Citizen: the Territory of the Body in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Visual PracticesMagali M. CarreraChapter 2. The Mexican Codices and the Visual Language of RevolutionGordon BrotherstonChapter 3. Subversive Needlework: Gender, Class and History at Venezuela´s National Exhibition, 1883Beatriz González Stephan (transl. Heike Vogt)Chapter 4. Material Memories: Tradition and Amnesia in two Argentine MuseumsAlvaro Fernández BravoPART II: SELF AND OTHER IN THE AVANT-GARDEChapter 5. Exoticism, Alterity and the Ecuadorean Elite: The Work of Camilo EgasTrinidad Pérez (transl. Philip Derbyshire)Chapter 6. Primitivist Iconographies: Tango and Samba, Images of the NationFlorencia GarramuñoChapter 7. ‘Argentina in the World’: Internationalist Nationalism in the Art of the 1960sAndrea Giunta (transl. Emma Thomas)PART III: MASSES AND MONUMENTALITYChapter 8. ‘Cold as the Stone of which it Must be Made’: Caboclos, Monuments and the Memory of Independence in Bahia, Brazil, 1870–1900Hendrik KraayChapter 9. Photography, Memory, Disavowal: the Casasola ArchiveAndrea NobleChapter 10. Mass and Multitude: Bastardised Iconographies of the Modern OrderGraciela MontaldoPART IV: SPACES OF FLIGHT AND CAPTUREChapter 11. Marconi and other Artifices: Long-range Technology and the Conquest of the Desert Claudio Canaparo (transl. Peter Cooke)Chapter 12. Desert Dreams: Nomadic Tourists and Cultural DiscontentGabriela Nouzeilles (transl. Jens Andermann)Chapter 13. Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles: Reflections on Mobility and GlobalityMary Louise PrattNotes on ContributorsIndex

"Such a brief overview cannot do the essays in this collection justice. Amply illustrated and nicely organised, the collected essays represent some of the most innovative work being done in the field of visual culture in Latin America. Of particular value is the range of theoretical interests and perspectives brought to bear on visual culture by the contributors. This is theoretical and disciplinary eclecticism at its best. Each essay is refreshing and original and there is little redundancy despite the length of the book…For scholars working on visual culture, the state and cultural history, this is an essential volume." -Journal of Latin American Studies