Blackmore, Lisa (2017) El Helicoide and La Torre de David as Phantom Pavilions: Rethinking Spectacles of Progress in Venezuela. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 36 (2). pp. 206-222. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12524
Blackmore, Lisa (2017) El Helicoide and La Torre de David as Phantom Pavilions: Rethinking Spectacles of Progress in Venezuela. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 36 (2). pp. 206-222. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12524
Blackmore, Lisa (2017) El Helicoide and La Torre de David as Phantom Pavilions: Rethinking Spectacles of Progress in Venezuela. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 36 (2). pp. 206-222. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12524
Abstract
This article explores El Helicoide and La Torre de David as remnants of the recurrent boom‐and‐bust cycles and spectacles of progress associated with Venezuela's ‘magical state’ (Coronil). Their redefinition as ‘phantom pavilions’—constructions designed to symbolise development but haunted by crisis and precariousness—serves as a conceptual tool against the amnesia and hysteria these sites provoke. First, I use it to track the buildings' grandiose designs, subsequent curtailment and modified uses through political and economic history. Second, the concept informs the analysis of recent artworks that summon monumentality and ruination to envisage alternate forms of public engagement with truncated sites.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | architecture; art; monument; ruin; spectacle; Venezuela |
Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2018 15:31 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 20:07 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/22681 |