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The 'air of Liberty'
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

The 'air of Liberty'

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

The Caribbean imagination as framed within a Dutch historical setting has deep Portuguese-African roots. The Seven Provinces were the first European power, in the first half of the 17th century, to challenge the Iberian countries directly for a share in the slave trade. This book analyzes the philosophy underlying this transoceanic link, when contacts with Africa started to be developed. The ambiguous morality of the `air of liberty? governing the Afro-Portuguese past had its impact on the creole cultures (white, black, Jewish) of the Dutch territories of Suriname and Curacao. Although this influence is gradually disappearing, it is astonishing to witness the engagement with which writers an...

Canons and Values
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Canons and Values

  • Categories: Art

A critical rethinking of the way canons are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised. A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations of the European canon, offers a critical rethinking of ancient and classical art, and interrogates the canons of cultures and regions that have often been left at the margins of art history. It underscores the historical and geographical diversity of canons and the local values underlying them. Twelve international scholars consider how canons are constructed and contested, focusing on the relationship between canonical objects and the value systems that sha...

Homer Boss
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

Homer Boss

  • Categories: Art

This is a collection of Homer Boss's paintings, scrapbooks, papers, and oral histories relating to his New Mexico years as well as to his influential teaching days at the Independent School of Art and Art Students League in New York City.

A Discontented Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

A Discontented Diaspora

DIVAnalyzes the experiences of a generation of Japanese-Brazilians in Sao Paulo during the most authoritarian period of military rule in order to ask questions about ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. /div

Transatlantic Encounters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Transatlantic Encounters

  • Categories: Art

Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde. Latin American artists contributed to and reinterpreted nearly every major modernist movement that took place in the creative center of Paris between World War I and World War II, including Cubism (Diego Rivera), Surrealism (Antonio Berni and Roberto Matta), and Constructivism (Joaquin Torres-Garcia). Yet their participation in the Paris art scene has remained largely overlooked until now. This book examines their collective role, surveying the work of both household names and an extraordinary array of lesser-known artists. Michele Greet illuminates the significant ways in which Latin American expatriates helped establish modernism and, conversely, how a Parisian environment influenced the development of Latin American artistic identity.

Cannibal Modernities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Cannibal Modernities

With inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, this study shows how the ""peripheral"" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models, and addresses issues that many post colonial theorists have struggled with.

Architecture of Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Architecture of Brazil

Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different understandings of modernity, evident in the chapter topics of this book. Accordingly, the author does not give overall preference to particular architects nor works, with the exception of a few specific works and architects, including Warchavchik, Niemeyer, Lucio Costa, and Vilanova Artigas.

As cores da amizade
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 244

As cores da amizade

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Annablume

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ABC do IEB
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 204

ABC do IEB

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: EdUSP

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Latin American Writers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 656

Latin American Writers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Discusses writers of the New World and provides a critial analyses of today's outstanding writers.