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050 00 $aF2326$b.B47 2017
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100 1 $aBlackmore, Lisa,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSpectacular modernity :$bdictatorship, space, and visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 /$cLisa Blackmore.
264 1 $aPittsburgh, Pa. :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$c[2017]
300 $axii, pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aIlluminations : cultural formations of the Americas series
520 2 $a"An analysis of how a decade of military rule in Venezuela produced a dominant ideology of progress so meticulously crafted that to this day audacious Modernist art and architecture and dictatorship are conflated under the term 'modernity'"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 2 $a"In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies--from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture--reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
651 0 $aVenezuela$xCultural policy.
651 0 $aVenezuela$xPolitics and government$y1935-1958.
650 0 $aDictatorship$xSocial aspects$zVenezuela$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMilitary government$xSocial aspects$zVenezuela$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSocial change$zVenezuela$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$xPolitical aspects$zVenezuela$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArt$xPolitical aspects$zVenezuela$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArchitecture$xPolitical aspects$zVenezuela$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSpectacular, The$xPolitical aspects$zVenezuela$xHistory$y20th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Latin America / South America.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Criticism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aART / Criticism & Theory.$2bisacsh
830 0 $aIlluminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
852 00 $boff,glx$hF2326$i.B47 2017