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Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina
This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina, hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.
La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina
In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a complex period in which the country saw prosperity and economic crisis, a growing cosmopolitan population, the emergence of consumer culture, and the development of nationalism. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna—the modern girl—helped shape Argentina’s emerging national identity. Tossounian looks at visual and written portrayals of young womanhood in magazines, newspapers, pulp fiction, advertisements, music, films, and other media. She identifies and discusses four new types of young urban women: the flapper, the worker, the spor...
Pictured Politics
The Spanish colonial period in South America saw artists develop the subgenre of official portraiture, or portraits of key individuals in the continent’s viceregal governments. Although these portraits appeared to illustrate a narrative of imperial splendor and absolutist governance, they instead became a visual record of the local history that emerged during the colonial occupation. Using the official portrait collections accumulated between 1542 and 1830 in Lima, Buenos Aires, and Bogota as a lens, Pictured Politics explores how official portraiture originated and evolved to become an essential component in the construction of Ibero-American political relationships. Through the surviving...
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics
DIVAn exploration of the impact of the 1960s and the U.S. post-cold war moment on the reception of Latin American art and artists./div
Appropriation as Practice
How the "traffic in culture" is practiced, rationalized and experienced by visual artists in the globalized world. The book focuses on artistic practices in the appropriation of indigenous cultures, and the construction of new Latin American identities. Appropriation is the fundamental theoretical concept developed to understand these processes.
Paisaje con figuras
Este libro se centra en el informe del viaje del Beagle que fue publicado en 1938 con el nombre de Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle. Paisaje con figuras identifica aquello que nutrió la percepción y la representación del sur de América que Darwin, Fitz Roy y el artista Conrad Martens generaron a partir de su expedición, así como sus aportes inaugurales. El objetivo es entender Tierra del Fuego como un espacio multiforme, nacido del cruce entre lo real, lo vivido y lo imaginado.
Dismantling the Nation
The first academic volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices and culture from Chile in the English language, Dismantling the Nation takes as its point of departure a radical criticism against the nation-state of Chile and its colonial, capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule, proposing otherwise forms of inhabiting, creating, and relating in a more fluid, contingent, ecocritical, feminist, and caring worlds. From the case of Chile, the book expands the scholarly discussion around decolonial methodologies, attending to artistic practices and discourses from distinct and distant locations-from Arica and the Atacama Desert to Wallmapu and Tierra del Fuego, an...
Ver, conocer, dominar
La mirada europea sobre América y su incidencia en la propia mirada americana es el tema de fondo de este interesante ensayo que analiza los testimonios escritos y visuales de tres expediciones españolas al actual territorio argentino en la última etapa del período colonial. Con los tres casos estudiados, la entrada de Gerónimo Matorras al Chaco en 1774, los viajes de Félix de Azara realizados entre 1782 y 1801 y la expedición Malaspina (1789-1794), Penhos realiza un análisis de las relaciones entre los modos de ver, conocer y dominar el territorio sudamericano. Al igual que otros especialistas que se han dedicado al tema (Tzvetan Todorov, Antonello Gerbi, Peter Mason) en su ensayo, la autora desmonta los procedimientos mediante los que las representaciones se consideran testimonios y documentos sociales. La historiadora vincula los elementos históricos y culturales que intervienen en el acto de ver que suponen recortes y selecciones de datos- con las prácticas de acopio de conocimientos sobre el territorio sudamericano y con los mecanismos simbólicos y materiales de dominio por medio del análisis de sus representaciones escritas e icónicas.
Science in the Vanished Arcadia
In Science in the Vanished Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on individual Jesuits and underlining the relationships of their work to the religious goals of the Society of Jesus, the book covers the disciplines of natural history, cartography, medical botany, astronomy and the topics pursued by the former missionaries in their Italian exile. Based on many so far unexplored manuscripts and a vast corpus of primary sources, the book argues the existence of a tradition of research on nature consistent with universal Jesuit science and at the same time original in its articulation of Western learning and aboriginal lore on nature.
