TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andermann, Jens
AU  - Andermann, Jens
TI  - The optic of the state : : Visuality and power in Argentina and Brazil
T2  - Illuminations., Cultural formations of the Americas
SN  - 9780822959724
U1  - 306.209 AND 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Pittsburgh .
PB  - : University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Culture & institutions
KW  - Museos -- Influencia -- Brasil
KW  - Argentina -- Características nacionales
KW  - Museos de Argentina
KW  - Exposiciones de Brasil
KW  - Iconografia
N1  - Empires 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
N2  - Traces 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.


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