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OverviewVisual culture in Spain and Mexico analyses films, paintings and museum exhibitions to show how aspects of hispanic visual culture 'manage' or 'mediate' risk, as articulated stylistically and ideologically in the visual artefact. The book is divided into six chapters plus an Introduction. The first three chapters deal with Mexico or more accurately aspects of life in Mexico City; the other three with Spain or more precisely with the Basque Country and aspects of cultural appropriation which include but also exceed Basque cultural politics.The book is at one and the same time a fine set of specific, detailed essays on visual cultural artefacts and their histories/modes of consumption and reception, and a broader meditation on the role of visual culture in an age increasingly characterised by doom-laden analyses of global panics, pandemics and jihads. The study also reflects the continuing hybridization of Hispanic Studies into the eclecticism of Cultural and Visual Studies, and the re-siting of well known cultural objects and institutions - such as the Guggenheim and Picasso's Guernica - into new frames of reference, generating new approaches, ideas and modes of understanding. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anny Brooksbank-Jones , Chantal Hamil , Chantal HamilPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780719056789ISBN 10: 0719056780 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 30 April 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of illustrations Introduction and acknowledgements Part 1 1. After-image of the global city 2. Urban imaginaries 3. A scandalous family album Part 2 4. Words from other worlds. The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao 5. Countdown. Figuring risk and the Real 6. Symbolizing Gernika Conclusion Bibliography -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationAnny Brooksbank Jones is Hughes Professor of Spanish at The University of Sheffield Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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