2014
DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2014.886931
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The Controversy at Rockefeller Center: Phantom Publics, Aesthetic Barbarians

Abstract: This article investigates the Rivera controversy at Rockefeller Center arguing that the controversy illuminates tensions in democratic culture over the role of the masses and their relation to the “legitimate” public, exhibited in anxieties about phantom publics and barbarian crowds. Beginning with critical discourse surrounding the construction of Rockefeller Center, the mural controversy is resituated within a broader frame in which revanchist anxieties and worry about mass media play a crucial role. Appeals… Show more

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“…Aunque el caso no se resolvió en un litigio sino con una compensación que fue el pago de la totalidad de la obra (Cf. Bruce, 2014), Diego Rivera pudo reproducirlo nuevamente en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la ciudad de México donde se encuentra actualmente.…”
Section: Del Derecho a La Integridad De La Obra Al Corpus Mysticumunclassified
“…Aunque el caso no se resolvió en un litigio sino con una compensación que fue el pago de la totalidad de la obra (Cf. Bruce, 2014), Diego Rivera pudo reproducirlo nuevamente en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la ciudad de México donde se encuentra actualmente.…”
Section: Del Derecho a La Integridad De La Obra Al Corpus Mysticumunclassified
“…Readers of Rancière in rhetorical studies have embraced this sense of political language as being "public" and having a certain "material exteriority" that allows it to be taken up by anyone; this is language's doxastic dimension (Bruce 2014, Ewalt 2016. As something publicly available and exterior to anyone who uses it, language can be taken up and acted out in order to redistribute our sensibilities about who is entitled to lay claim to political subjectivity and interrupt the distribution of sensibility about the proper referents of "materially exterior" or "public" language.…”
Section: Political Philosophical Doxai Of Rights and Communitymentioning
confidence: 99%