Ciudad, arte y poder en América

Abstract

The dominance of the Iberian Peninsula on the American peoples involved transferring the land of conquest and settlement concepts and models of architectural and artistic Europe. Images and representations of power were as important as the armies of the invention to secure America from the Iberian and European colonialism. Representations of civilization and barbarism utopia, mediated by the religious and administrative apparatus of the peninsula, were also forms of domination of peoples and cultures. In this war of ideas and images came a new American imagination in the end gave the basis and foundation to the representations of power of nation states Americans.

Keywords: Architecture, art, civilization, city, barbaric, utopia, religion, Latin America.