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de la Canal -that are generally more illustrative than innovative. Partly for that reason, Jolly's book wisely emphasises broader historical issuestourism and nation-building, above allover close formal readings of individual works. For while the artists' visual focus was largely on history and tradition (vibrant lacquerwares and the 'butterfly' nets of local fishermen are two of the most enduring iconographic topoi), the political focus of their patrons was radical modernisation on a regional level, essential for the creation of a modern nation. Monuments to local heroes, odes to regional occupations or costumes, and displays of folk art -all tied to the indigenous and colonial past -encouraged tourism, but also facilitated and ameliorated a forward-looking federal strategy that deployed schools, highways, electrification, land reform, and even theatres and museums in order to peacefully subsume local parts into an ever-stronger national whole. In a book that demonstrates such fine scholarship, featuring generally unfamiliar sites and actors, produced by a press with an extensive legacy in the field of Latin American art, it is surprising to find more slips than one might expect,
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- Author
- Isaac Caro
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Elsevier BV; Wiley; JSTOR (ISSN 0261-3050)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences