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"Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, in the wake of the installation of Brazil's military dictatorship, artists and art collectives in Brazil used their work to critique the government and its sanitized images of Brazil, its use of torture, and its targeted persecutions. Mari Rodríguez Binnie's The São Paulo Neo-Avant Garde studies this art and its engagement with politics and mainstream institutions and traditions. During this period São Paulo was home to a growing number of high-rise office buildings, and many of the artists studied here held day jobs that gave them after-hours access to new technologies of mass production that became foundational to their work. As the author write...
International journal of contemporary visual artists.
A panorama of the artistic, architectural and academic development in Sao Paulo during the last century from the perspective of a Paulista who along with his family has lived through the urban, social and technological transformations of the city since 1895. Author architect, scholar and artist Lemos narrates his own incursion in design and painting, his experiences as an architect and his participation in the patrimony defense board of the Condephaat (Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Histórico, Arqueológico, Artístico e Turístico)
Arranged alphabetically from Eduardo Abela to Francisco Zuniga, this volume provides biographical and career information, as well as critical essays, on prominent Hispanic artists.
Ensaio pioneiro sobre a obra de Juó Bananére, considerado hoje um dos precursores do nosso Modernismo. Bananére foi o inventor de uma linguagem macarrônica ítalo-paulista como procedimento literário no Brasil, oposta ao Parnasianismo e a toda a literatura oficial do período. A autora compara seus achados humorísticos com as conquistas da vanguarda brasileira e internacional, situando-o com propriedade no quadro da época.
A review of the awarding winners in Brazilian arts from 1956-2005. A good survey with introductory essays for each section. Predominately visual arts but also includes music, theater, cinema, dance.
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