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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Historical Materialism Book Ser.
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Historical Materialism Book Ser.
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"This book is volume 2 - complementing volume 1: HM 137 The Conspiracy of Modern Art, by Luiz Renato Martins, edited and introduced by Steve Edwards, ISBN 9789004280045 (Brill 2017)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements (and Some Welcome Words to the Reader); Credits; Introduction (Potts); Part 1. From Formation to Dismantling; Chapter 1. Strategies of Occupying Space in Brazil, from Tarsila to Oiticica; Chapter 2. 'Free Form': Brazilian Mode of Abstraction or a Malaise in History; Chapter 3. All This Geometry, Where Does It Come from, Where Does It Go?; Chapter 4. Trees of Brazil; Chapter 5. The Situation of Art and the 'Pensée Unique'; Chapter 6. Formation and Dismantling of a Brazilian Visual System; Part 2. From Dismantling to Struggle |
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Chapter 7. From the Debate about Formation to Strike as FormationChapter 8. The Indignity of São Paulo; Chapter 9. Art against the Grain; Part 3. Against Formalism: Art, History and Criticism; Chapter 10. Work, Art and History: A Counterpoint between Periphery and Centre; Chapter 11. Notes on Modernisation, from the Periphery: On David Craven's 'Alternative Modernism'; Chapter 12. Art as Work (Interview); Chapter 13. International Benefit Society of Friends of Form and Bulletin on the Brazilian Division; Index of Artworks, Architectural Works and Songs Cited; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism's combined but uneven development as these appear from the global 'periphery'. The grand project of Brasilia is the main theme of the first two chapters, which treat the `ideal city' as a case study in the ways in which creative talent in Brazil has been made to serve in the reproduction of social iniquities whose origins can be traced back to the agrarian latifundia. Further chapters scrutinise the socio-historical basis of Brazilian art, and develop, against the grain of the most prominent art historical approaches to modern Brazilian culture, a critical approach to the distinctly Brazilian visual language of geometrical abstraction. The book contends that, from the fifties up to today, formalism in Brazil has expressed the hegemony of the market. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Art, Brazilian -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Art, Brazilian. |
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20th century |
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Themes, motives. |
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Architecture -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture. |
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Brazil. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Grigera, Juan, editor.
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Rezende, Renato, 1964- translator.
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Essays. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017008783
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Martins, Luiz Renato. Long roots of formalism in Brazil. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004323223 (DLC) 2017051067 |
| ISBN |
9789004362307 (electronic book) |
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9004362304 (electronic book) |
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9789004323223 (hardback) ; alkaline paper) |
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