A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art. Группа авторов

A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art - Группа авторов


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– we could not take a picture of a typewriter before it existed – this logic is not reversible. The invention of a new technology does not guarantee its conversion into an icon of modernity or its contribution to the aesthetic language of modernism.1 Certain tropes, those rhetorical figures that stand for the modern at large, have become so familiar as to be almost invisible today, whereas others never entered those lexicons. In what follows, I show how, despite its status as the proclaimed peripheries of modernity, Latin America makes the contours of these figures of modernity visible once more, reveals hidden tensions and contradictions within, and so makes possible a critical reexamination of the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of global modernity.


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