Table of Contents

Introduction: The Power of Images
Jens Andermann and William Rowe

PART I: MEMORY AND THE PUBLIC ARENA

Chapter 1. From Royal Subject to Citizen: the Territory of the Body in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexican Visual Practices
Magali M. Carrera

Chapter 2. The Mexican Codices and the Visual Language of Revolution
Gordon Brotherston

Chapter 3. Subversive Needlework: Gender, Class and History at Venezuela´s National Exhibition, 1883
Beatriz González Stephan (transl. Heike Vogt)

Chapter 4. Material Memories: Tradition and Amnesia in two Argentine Museums
Alvaro Fernández Bravo

PART II: SELF AND OTHER IN THE AVANT-GARDE

Chapter 5. Exoticism, Alterity and the Ecuadorean Elite: The Work of Camilo Egas
Trinidad Pérez (transl. Philip Derbyshire)

Chapter 6. Primitivist Iconographies: Tango and Samba, Images of the Nation
Florencia Garramuño

Chapter 7. ‘Argentina in the World’: Internationalist Nationalism in the Art of the 1960s
Andrea Giunta (transl. Emma Thomas)

PART III: MASSES AND MONUMENTALITY

Chapter 8. ‘Cold as the Stone of which it Must be Made’: Caboclos, Monuments and the Memory of Independence in Bahia, Brazil, 1870–1900
Hendrik Kraay

Chapter 9. Photography, Memory, Disavowal: the Casasola Archive
Andrea Noble

Chapter 10. Mass and Multitude: Bastardised Iconographies of the Modern Order
Graciela Montaldo

PART IV: SPACES OF FLIGHT AND CAPTURE

Chapter 11. Marconi and other Artifices: Long-range Technology and the Conquest of the Desert 
Claudio Canaparo (transl. Peter Cooke)

Chapter 12. Desert Dreams: Nomadic Tourists and Cultural Discontent
Gabriela Nouzeilles (transl. Jens Andermann)

Chapter 13. Why the Virgin of Zapopan went to Los Angeles: Reflections on Mobility and Globality
Mary Louise Pratt

Notes on Contributors
Index