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Images at War: Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Serge Gruzinski
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Description for Images at War: Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Paperback. Explores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism. Translator(s): Maclean, Heather. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
“If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking reinterpretation of the Spanish colonization of Mexico. Concentrating on the political meaning of the baroque image and its function within a multicultural society, Gruzinski compares its ubiquity in Mexico to our modern fascination with images and their meaning.
Although the baroque image played a ... Read more
“If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking reinterpretation of the Spanish colonization of Mexico. Concentrating on the political meaning of the baroque image and its function within a multicultural society, Gruzinski compares its ubiquity in Mexico to our modern fascination with images and their meaning.
Although the baroque image played a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Latin America Otherwise
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822326434
SKU
V9780822326434
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About Serge Gruzinski
Serge Gruzinski is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and author of several books, among them The Conquest of Mexico and Man-Gods in the Mexican Highlands. Heather MacLean is a translator who lives in Forest Grove, Oregon.
Reviews for Images at War: Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
“A magnificent study—already influential in its field. One gets a far richer sense of colonial Mexico in these pages than is offered by the kind of literary or cultural history that can only draw on a few scanty documents and verbal testimonials. This book speaks powerfully to our contemporary appetite for a renewal of our views of the colonial and ... Read more