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04413aam a2200529 i 4500 001 BFF4EBA4EA0A11E7B6F5700597128E48 003 SILO 005 20171226010227 008 170418s2017 paua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017014490 020 $a 0822964384 (paperback : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780822964384 (paperback : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)958781662 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d INU $d OBE $d YUS $d NRC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-ve--- 050 00 $a F2326 $b .B47 2017 082 00 $a 987.06/32 $2 23 084 $a ART009000 $a ARC001000 $a ART009000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Blackmore, Lisa, $e author. 245 10 $a Spectacular modernity : $b dictatorship, space and visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 / $c Lisa Blackmore. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh, PA : $b University of Pittsburgh Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xii, 268 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Illuminations : 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'"-- $c Provided 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 Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship.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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 651 0 $a Venezuela $x Cultural policy. 651 0 $a Venezuela $x Politics and government $y 1935-1958. 650 0 $a Dictatorship $x History $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Military government $x History $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Social change $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Modernism (Aesthetics) $x History $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Art $x History $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Architecture $x History $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Spectacular, The $x History $z Venezuela $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Latin America / South America. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a ART / Criticism & Theory. $2 bisacsh 650 4 $a HISTORY / Latin America / South America. 650 4 $a ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. 650 4 $a ART / Criticism & Theory. 830 0 $a Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210025959.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BFF4EBA4EA0A11E7B6F5700597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search