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Disputas monumentales
En el contexto de la conmemoración del bicentenario de la independencia, la elaboración y consolidación de nuestros símbolos y epopeyas comprende un proceso que lejos de ser neutral o unívoco, parte de tensiones y negociaciones políticas y, a la vez, simbólicas. Hoy, cuando la “desfiguración” del monumento –como lo mencionara Rosalind Krauss en La Escultura en el espacio expandido en 1994– hace parte de nuestra cotidianidad, nos cuesta entender a las esculturas en espacio público como objetos en los que de forma privilegiada se materializaron estas luchas de sentido siglos atrás. Si con la instalación de la primera escultura en el espacio público en la ciudad en 1846, el ...
Praying to Portraits
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Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times
This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of performance studies and human rights activism. By mixing scholarly chapters with artists’ manifestos or “interruptions” it promotes the idea of the collective work between academia and social movements. Not only is it very timely, theoretically savvy, and well written, it also brings together scholars, activists, artists, and artivists in a very fluid, collective approach, something many of us strive to do.” — Paola S. Hernández, University of Wisconsin, USA This book charts the changing frontiers of activism in the Americas. Travelling Canada, the US, the US-Mexico border, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and I...
Retratos públicos
Laura Malosetti Costa se ocupa aquí del retrato como soporte de la memoria afectiva y la idealización o deformación caricaturesca de ciertos personajes públicos a lo largo del tiempo, en su doble dimensión de arte y documento. Su análisis está centrado en los retratos más perdurables de algunas figuras heroicas de la independencia latinoamericana. Examina críticamente la ausencia casi total de retratos de Juana Azurduy y la problemática fijación de su imagen; la inadecuación de los retratos de Belgrano al estereotipo masculino del guerrero revolucionario; la imagen "blanda" del traicionado Miranda, y la construcción del tópico del héroe moderno en Simón Bolívar y Artigas. Ad...
Mutaciones de la piedra
Mutaciones de la piedra aborda los monumentos conmemorativos y procesos de monumentalización en el país como un objeto de estudio a partir de una triple perspectiva: teórica, historiográfica y legislativa. De esta forma, se espera contribuir a la construcción de una historia cultural de los monumentos colombianos en tiempos en los que las nociones comunes de historia, patrimonio y nación se encuentran en constante debate y redefinición.
Men on Horseback
"In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell’s description of our predicament makes for essential reading." —Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen In Men on Horseback, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic new interpretation of modern politics, arguing that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma, its shadow self. Bell begins with Corsica’s Pasquale Paoli, an icon of republican virtue whose ...
La materialización del pasado
Con la publicación de esta obra colectiva queremos contribuir a la comprensión de los procesos de configuración de la memoria social en Colombia, a partir de una historia cultural de los monumentos enfocada en la forma en que las representaciones y apropiaciones históricas de estas obras se han ido transformando y resignificando con el tiempo. A partir de diferentes casos de estudio, correspondientes a diversos territorios y momentos históricos, los autores indagan acerca de las representaciones sobre la nación y su historia que se inscriben en los monumentos; qué es lo que hacen visible y qué ocultan; cuáles son las inclusiones y exclusiones en la monumentalización; qué actores se disputan los sentidos inscritos en los monumentos en diferentes contextos históricos y cómo lo hacen y, qué políticas de la memoria, y el olvido, subyacen a la historia de los monumentos conmemorativos en Colombia. Así mismo, este texto hace un aporte importante a la historiografía colombiana sobre los monumentos, da cuenta de cómo se ha realizado la investigación acerca de estos objetos culturales en nuestro país y ofrece nuevas interpretaciones y explicaciones.
Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century
Historical research on modern dictatorship has often neglected the relevance of the nineteenth century, instead focusing on twentieth-century dictatorial rules. Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century brings together scholars of political thought, the history of ideas and gender studies in order to address this oversight. Political dictatorship is often assumed to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, but the notion gained currency during the French Revolution. The Napoleonic experience underscored this trend, which was later maintained during the wars of independence in Latin America. Starting from the assumption that dictatorship has its own history within the nineteenth century, separate from the ancient Roman paradigm and twentieth-century totalitarianism, this volume aims at establishing a dialogue between the concepts of dictatorship and the experiences and transfer of knowledge between Latin America and Europe during this period. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern history, as well as those interested in political history and the history of dictatorship.
Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America
This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and narratives of some of the most significant academies and national schools of art in South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The book highlights not only issues shared by Latin American academies of art but also those that differentiate them from their European counterparts. Authors examine issues including statutes, the influence of workshops and guilds, the importance of patronage, discourses of race and ethnicity in visual pedagogy, and European models versus the quest for national schools. It also offers first-time English translations of many foundational documents from several significant academies and schools. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and modern visual cultures.
Alfredo Boulton
This lavishly illustrated volume examines the work of the Venezuelan photographer and art historian Alfredo Boulton, one of the main intellectuals of Latin American modernity. Alfredo Boulton (1908–1995) is considered one of the most important champions of modern art in Venezuela and a key intellectual of twentieth-century modernism. He was a pioneer of modern photography, an art critic, a researcher and historian of Venezuelan art, a friend to many of the great artists and architects of the twentieth century, and an expert on the imagery of the heroes of his country’s independence. Yet, Boulton is shockingly underrecognized outside of his native land. The few exhibitions related to his ...
