Esther Gabara

Errant Modernism

The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines photographs, mixed media essays, and experimental literature from two of the most influential modernist avant-garde movements in Latin America, proposing a theory of modernism that addresses the intersection of ethics and aesthetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343400
• ISBN-10: 0822343401
• Artikelnr.: 23880307

Autorenporträt

Esther Gabara is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Landscape: Errant Modernist Aesthetics in Brazil 36
2. Portraiture: Facing Brazilian Primitivism 75
3. Mediation: Mass Culture, Popular Culture, Modernism 120
4. Essay: Las Bellas Artes Públicas, Photography, and Gender in Mexico 143
5. Fiction: Photographic Fictions, Fictional Photographs 196
Epilogue 240
Notes 261
Bibliography 319
Index 345