Joseph R. Hartman is an assistant professor of art history/Latinx and Latin American Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Hartman has lectured and published widely on modern and contemporary Latin American art and architecture, focusing espe
Dictator's Dreamscape will serve as a touchstone work to understand
how cults of personality meld seamlessly with regimes of power and
public edification. . . . Architectural historians, semioticians,
planners, cultural geographers, and curious travelers . . . will
turn to these pages for years to come."-- "Estudios
Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe"
Dreams of a future Cuba accompanied the realities of the nation
throughout the twentieth century--Dictator's Dreamscape reveals the
ways in which dreams and realities collided. Its acute
interpretations of public works carried out by the Machado regime
produce a new and compelling understanding of complicity and
resistance in the relation between politics and visual
culture.--Timothy Hyde, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engagingly written and theoretically astute, Joseph Hartman's
Dictator's Dreamscape, offers a roving critical eye over Machado's
Havana, taking us from El Capitolio to Carretera Central to
Presidio Modelo and back again. Hartman skillfully meshes analyses
of the brick and mortar city with its more fleeting and malleable
look and feel, paying careful attention to the ways architecture
circulates in media and mobilizes ideas and bodies. He presents a
complex cultural landscape of illusion and disillusion, never
losing sight of the dictatorship's violence and the legacy of
colonialism and imperialism on the island.--George Flaherty,
University of Texas at Austin
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