Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation (Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions)

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Synopsis
Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
274 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351777902
Related ISBNs:
9780367667009, 9781138712591, 9781315200057
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Taylor and Francis
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Michele Greet
Edited by:
Gina McDaniel Tarver

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