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OverviewIn the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities-Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima-as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute's vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities' changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today's Latin American megalapolis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Idurre Alonso , Maristella CasciatoPublisher: Getty Trust Publications Imprint: Getty Publications Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.00cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9781606066942ISBN 10: 1606066943 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 24 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Idurre Alonso, Maristella Casciato Chronology ALBUM_ Capital Cities 1-The Emergence of Latin American Capital Cities in the Nineteenth Century German Rodrigo Mejia Pavony 2-Exile and Return from Paradise in the City of the Future: Order, Nature, and Society in the Latin American Metropolis Jorge F. Rivas Perez ALBUM_ Colonial Cities and National Heroes 3-From Postcolonial Cities to the First Latin American Metropolises, 1850-1930 Arturo Almandoz 4-Dominated Nature in the Construction of the Latin American Urban Landscape Sonia Berjman ALBUM_ Avenues, Parks, Theaters, and Vacation 5-The Visible and the Invisible: The Photographic Image of the Latin American Metropolis (1840-1930) Idurre Alonso 6-Visions of Mobility: Early Cinema in the Latin American Metropolis David M. J. Wood ALBUM_ Infrastructures 7-Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: Plans and Projects for the Formation of the Metropolis Maria Cristina da Silva Leme 8-The Resurgence of the Ancient Past: Mexico City in the Age of Modern Technologies Cristobal Jacome-Moreno 9-Americanizing the Metropolis. Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Reinterpretations in the Search for a New Art Rodrigo Gutierrez Vinuales ALBUM_ Expositions and Literature 10-Architects and Urban Planners, Voyages from Europe to Latin America Maristella Casciato ALBUM_ Toward Modernism Archival Sources Bibliography IndexReviews"""The authors shed light on the transformations that modified the colonial model of Iberian cities in America, from Mexico to Argentina, displacing the axis of viceregal power toward a circuit of cities that were able to expand and gather international prestige during the republican period. The book includes an unusual repertoire of topics in the field of research of history at the early stages of modernity in Latin America.""-Gabriela Rangel, artistic director, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); ""The Metropolis in Latin America is an excellent survey featuring the city's key role in the conformation of the social and political order of the newly born republics, with enlightening essays that discuss a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches. A magnificent iconographic collection shows how Latin American urban development challenged Western architecture's aesthetic canons, became an accurate laboratory for the newly constituted discipline of urbanism, and shaped the structure of its own image and identity, as we can see today.""-Horacio Torrent, professor of architecture, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile" The authors shed light on the transformations that modified the colonial model of Iberian cities in America, from Mexico to Argentina, displacing the axis of viceregal power toward a circuit of cities that were able to expand and gather international prestige during the republican period. The book includes an unusual repertoire of topics in the field of research of history at the early stages of modernity in Latin America. -Gabriela Rangel, artistic director, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); The Metropolis in Latin America is an excellent survey featuring the city's key role in the conformation of the social and political order of the newly born republics, with enlightening essays that discuss a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches. A magnificent iconographic collection shows how Latin American urban development challenged Western architecture's aesthetic canons, became an accurate laboratory for the newly constituted discipline of urbanism, and shaped the structure of its own image and identity, as we can see today. -Horacio Torrent, professor of architecture, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Author InformationIdurre Alonso is associate curator of Latin American collections at the Getty Research Institute. Maristella Casciato is senior curator and head of architectural collections at the Getty Research Institute. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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