Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil
Author:   Esther Gabara
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 December 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Esther Gabara
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780822343400


ISBN 10:   0822343401
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 December 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Landscape: Errant Modernist Aesthetics in Brazil 36 2. Portraiture: Facing Brazilian Primitivism 75 3. Mediation: Mass Culture, Popular Culture, Modernism 120 4. Essay: Las Bellas Artes Públicas, Photography, and Gender in Mexico 143 5. Fiction: Photographic Fictions, Fictional Photographs 196 Epilogue 240 Notes 261 Bibliography 319 Index 345

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Errant Modernism is outstanding. Esther Gabara effortlessly navigates between avant-garde literary texts and modern print culture to reveal an ethic of 'that which errs.' In the process, photography becomes both the fact and metaphor enabling her theory of Latin American modernist cultural production. --Roberto Tejada, author of National Camera: Photography and Mexico's Image Environment With subtlety and rigor, Esther Gabara deftly expands the horizon of photographic history and redefines the contours of twentieth-century modernism in the Americas. Focusing on the social and cultural 'ethos' of aesthetic practice in both Mexico and Brazil, she provides a provocative corrective to formalist definitions that dominate the field and demonstrates that the full story of photographic modernism has yet to be told. --Jennifer A. Gonzalez, author of Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art


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Esther Gabara is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.

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