01639nam a22002777a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800890007608200160016510000200018124500930020126000580029430000320035236500090038449000570039350503690045052003210081965000200114065000280116065000360118865000470122465000250127165000280129665000170132470000200134120211004112938.0200825b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780822959724  a:Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. b:E/261, Shastri Nagar Delhic:TB199d:13/07/2020  a306.209 AND  aAndermann, Jens  aThe optic of the state b: Visuality and power in Argentina and Brazilc/ Jens Andermann  aPittsburgh .b: University of Pittsburgh Press,c2007  axv, 256 p.b:mapsc; 25 cm.  b2222  aIlluminations., Cultural formations of the Americas.  aEmpires of nature : museums, science, and the politics of being --
Spectacles of sacrifice : inside the Brazilian anthropological exhibition --
Antiques and archives : finding a home for history --
Into the heart of the state : the Planalto Expedition --
An essay in segmentarity : the Desert Campaign --
Disappearing acts : photography and primitive accumulation.  aTraces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. This work offers a critique of the visual aspects of national mythology. It also exposes how scientific and cultural institutions inscribed the state-form in time and space.

  aSocial Sciences  a Culture & institutions  aMuseos -- Influencia -- Brasil.  aArgentina -- Características nacionales.  aMuseos de Argentina.  aExposiciones de Brasil.  aIconografia.  aAndermann, Jens