City/art : the urban scene in Latin America

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    • Biron, Rebecca E.

書誌事項

City/art : the urban scene in Latin America

Rebecca E. Biron, editor

Duke University Press, 2009

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-265) and index

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内容説明

In City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists, describe how creativity-broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, performance art, and more-combines with nationalist rhetoric and historical discourse to define Latin American cities. Taken together, the essays model different ways of approaching Latin America's urban centers not only as places that inspire and house creative practices but also as ongoing collective creative endeavors themselves. The essays range from an examination of how differences of scale and point of view affect people's experience of everyday life in Mexico City to a reflection on the transformation of a prison into a shopping mall in Uruguay, and from an analysis of Buenos Aires's preoccupation with its own status and cultural identity to a consideration of what Miami means to Cubans in the United States. Contributors delve into the aspirations embodied in the modernist urbanism of Brasilia and the work of Lotty Rosenfeld, a Santiago performance artist who addresses the intersections of art, urban landscapes, and daily life. One author assesses the political possibilities of public art through an analysis of subway-station mosaics and Julio Cortazar's short story "Graffiti," while others look at the representation of Buenos Aires as a "Jewish elsewhere" in twentieth-century fiction and at two different responses to urban crisis in Rio de Janeiro. The collection closes with an essay by a member of the Sao Paulo urban intervention group Arte/Cidade, which invades office buildings, de-industrialized sites, and other vacant areas to install collectively produced works of art. Like that group, City/Art provides original, alternative perspectives on specific urban sites so that they can be seen anew. Contributors. Hugo Achugar, Rebecca E. Biron, Nelson Brissac Peixoto, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Adrian Gorelik, James Holston, Amy Kaminsky, Samuel Neal Lockhart, Jose Quiroga, Nelly Richard, Marcy Schwartz, George Yudice

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: City/Art: Setting the Scene / Rebecca E. Biron 1 Part 1. Urban Designs What is a City? / Nestor Garcia Canclini 37 Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too / Adrian Gorelik 61 The Spirit of Brasilia: Modernity as Experiment and Risk / James Holston 85 Part 2. Street Signs City, Art, Politics / Nelly Richard 115 The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of the Aesthetics / Marcy Schwartz 127 Miami Remake / Jose Quiroga 145 The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction / Amy Kaminsky 165 Part 3. Traffic On Maps and Malls / Hugo Achugar 185 Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro / George Yudice 211 Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness / Nelson Brissac Peixoto 233 Bibliography 251 Contributors 267 Index 271

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