Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon by Maureen G. Shanahan (Editor); Ana María Reyes (Editor)In this volume, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows how Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in painting, fiction, poetry, music, film, festival, dance, city planning, and even shrine adoration. They illustrate how Bolívar's body has been exalted, reimagined, or fragmented in different contexts, taking on a range of meanings to represent the politics and poetics of today's national bodies. By critically analyzing many examples of cultural Bolivarianisms or cults of Bolívar, this collection demonstrates the capacity of the arts and humanities to challenge and reinvent hegemonic icons and narratives and, therefore, to be vital to democracy. Maureen G. Shanahan is a professor of art history at James Madison University. Ana María Reyes is an assistant professor of Latin American art history at Boston University.