Spectacular Modernity Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 5
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN
- 9780822964384
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Spectacular Modernity is a 75k-word monograph about a ten-year period when military dictatorship coincided with the rise of modernist architecture in Venezuela. It resulted from four years of archival research, involving the sourcing, capture and detailed examination of a vast body of primary documents from the decade studied. These included State documents and publications, unclassified photographic archives, print and microfilm private newspaper archives, and newsreels. This close analysis underpins the book's original theoretical and critical contribution: the strategic discursive and visual cultural elaboration of modernity as a mode of State propaganda.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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