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Author Blackmore, Lisa, author.
Title Spectacular modernity : dictatorship, space and visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 / Lisa Blackmore.
Imprint Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Copyright Date ©2017
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 Main Library  F2326.B62    4 WEEK  IN LIBRARY 01-12-23
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Descript xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type text
Media type unmediated
Carrier type volume
Series Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas series
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
Contents Introduction: 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.
Subject Venezuela -- Cultural policy.
Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1935-1958.
Dictatorship -- Social aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
Military government -- Social aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
Social change -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
Art -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
Spectacular, The -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780822964384 paperback
0822964384 paperback
ISBN/ISSN 40027150388
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