City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America

Published by Duke University Press 2009

City/Art

The Urban Scene in Latin America

Edited by: Rebecca Biron
With contributions by: Néstor Garcia Canclini , Adrian Gorelik , James Holston and Nelly Richard

In the series e-Duke books scholarly collection

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390732

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About this book

An interdisciplinary collection exploring how creative practices broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, and performance art, continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America.

Author / Editor information

Rebecca E. Biron is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of Twentieth-Century Latin America.

Reviews

“Professor Biron, and the international colleagues whose work she has collected in City/Art, admirably aid in the effort to move nortamericanos' view of Latin America from the trivial to the substantial.” - Michael R. Mosher, Leonardo

“This is a fascinating, if rather fragmented, book. This fragmentedness is intentional, and is due in part to the multidisciplinary, open-ended
orientation of the collection. . . . [T]he book challenges us to approach and understand the complexity of ‘Latin American’ cities in new, productive, and
inspiring ways.” - Kristin Norget, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“City/Art includes ten provocative chapters spanning a variety of topics
within the urban cultural studies field. From architecture and city planning
to more ephemeral artistic manifestations embodied in graffiti, film,
fiction and everyday life, the distinguished scholars assembled here provide
a thoughtful assessment of what is otherwise a vast, nearly incomprehensible,
hyper-dynamic subject.” - Andrew Grant Wood, The Latin Americanist

“An insightful and suggestive collection of approaches to creative practices that produce and are produced by Latin American cities. City/Art offers a multidisciplinary collage of ways of studying and interrogating meaningful imaginaries of some of the most vibrant, amicable, violent, passionate, unequal, sensual, and intriguing cities in the contemporary world.”—Daniel Mato, Universidad Central de Venezuela

“Urban planning in the world's most chaotic megacities? Flamboyant creativity in the planet's slums? The breathless pace of change in Latin America has left us both fascinated and confused. City/Art creates an exciting space for real interdisciplinary dialogue between culture studies and urban planning scholars on the new challenges to urban life in some of the world's largest cities, and helps us in the urgent task of rethinking the cultural with respect to the social and political spaces in which it is imbedded.”—Debra A. Castillo, author of Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature

“City/Art includes ten provocative chapters spanning a variety of topics within the urban cultural studies field. From architecture and city planning to more ephemeral artistic manifestations embodied in graffiti, film, fiction and everyday life, the distinguished scholars assembled here provide a thoughtful assessment of what is otherwise a vast, nearly incomprehensible, hyper-dynamic subject.”

-- Andrew Grant Wood The Latin Americanist

“Professor Biron, and the international colleagues whose work she has collected in City/Art, admirably aid in the effort to move nortamericanos' view of Latin America from the trivial to the substantial.”

-- Michael R. Mosher Leonardo Reviews

“This is a fascinating, if rather fragmented, book. This fragmentedness is intentional, and is due in part to the multidisciplinary, open-ended orientation of the collection. . . . [T]he book challenges us to approach and understand the complexity of ‘Latin American’ cities in new, productive, and inspiring ways.”

-- Kristin Norget Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction City/Art: Setting the Scene Rebecca E. Biron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Urban Designs
What is a City? Néstor García Canclini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too Adrián Gorelik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk James Holston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Part 2 Street Signs
City, Art, Politics Nelly Richard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of Aesthetics Marcy Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Miami Remake José Quiroga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction Amy Kaminsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Part 3 Traffic
On Maps and Malls Hugo Achugar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro George Yúdice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness Nelson Brissac Peixoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 286
Illustrations
- Other: 39 illustrations

eBook

Published: July 17, 2009
ISBN: 9780822390732