Jens Andermann, The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)

摘要

Jens Andermann's work has been extremely helpful toward understanding the cultural environment of late nineteenth-century Brazil and Argentina. In this book he analyses the state in its visual form, and makes clear that there is a particular way of seeing that should be analysed carefully in order to comprehend the role of its transformative action. He makes a compelling case for the study of visual cultures that brings new insights to the scholarship of this well-researched period. The other important contribution of this book is that in using Brazil and Argentina to make its case it reveals how connected these two countries were, and highlights the similarities they shared in the process of state formation.