Tournaments of Value

Argentina and Brazil in the Age of Exhibitions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2390931
AutoresJens Andermann (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen14
Número3
Páginas333-363
Fecha de publicación2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183509106424
OpenAlexW2133684745
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas10

The `Age of Exhibitions' included the newly independent Latin American nation-states almost from the very outset. This article studies the complex strategies of material and visual display, architecture and writing through which representations of Argentina and Brazil were fashioned at the world fairs. It argues that, as peripheral affiliates of the emergent capitalist world-system, Latin Americans had to negotiate the material and symbolic value of their commodities and cultural samples with a host of agents, including not just foreign audiences but also exhibition organizers, artists, architects, and so on. National pavilions, therefore, rather than being seen as material texts authored by state governments, could be understood as `contact zones', performative spaces for the exchange of objects, gazes and words. The article concludes by comparing the world fairs with trade and industry exhibitions held in Brazil and Argentina themselves. In these, it observes the emergence of a dissident figure of national modernity as `development', challenging hegemonic regimes of value

Aesthetics · Art · Exhibition · Hegemony · Latin Americans · Media studies · Modernity · Negotiation · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Architecture · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Law