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Theories of the Nonobject
"Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela, with case studies of specific movements, artists, and critics. Amor traces their role in the significant reconceptualization of the artwork that Brazilian critic and poet Ferreira Gullar heralded in 'Theory of the Nonobject' in 1959, with specific attention to a group of major art figures including Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Gego, whose work proposed engaged forms of spectatorship that dismissed medium-based understandings of art. Exploring the philosophical, economic, and political underpinnings of geometric abstraction in post-World War II South America, Amor highlights the overlapping inquiries of artists and critics who, working on the periphery of European and US modernism, contributed to a sophisticated conversation about the nature of the art object"--Provided by publisher.
New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Taking a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach to Diaspora studies, New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience offers a wide range of new and challenging perspectives on Diaspora and confirms the relevance of this field to the discussion of contemporary forms of identity construction, movement, settlement, membership and collective identification. This volume investigates constructions of diasporic identity from a variety of temporal and spatial contexts. They explore encounters between diasporic communities and host societies, and examine how diasporic experiences can contribute to perpetuating or challenging normalised perceptions of the Other. The authors discuss how visual and literary representations become an integral part of diasporic experiences and identities. Other themes examined include communities’ attempts to reverse the negative effects of Diaspora and maintain cultural continuity, as well as generational differences and dialogue within the Diaspora, and the power that individuals have to negotiate marginal identities in diasporic settings.
The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century
The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century: From Folklore to Militancy takes an unprecedented comparative analysis approach to the complex relationship between popular music and culture, society, and politics in Latin America as it relates to representations of national identity. Tânia da Costa Garcia analyzes archival research in Chile, Brazil and Argentina, which have very similar cultural and political processes. This book is divided into two different parts: the first focuses on how the folk studies movement was legitimized in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina; while the second emphasizes the rich history of how the militant song movement in Spanish America was received, transformed, and transmitted to Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will be especially useful to scholars of Latin American studies, music studies, cultural studies, and history.
Brazilian History
This book offers the reader a critical and interdisciplinary introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful historical analysis, it discusses the main political, cultural, and social developments taking place in the Latin American country from 1500 to 2010. The historical narrative leads the reader step by step and in chronological succession to a clear understanding of the country’s three main historical periods: the Colonial Period (1500-1822), the Empire (1822-1889), and the Republic (1889-present). Each phase is treated separately and subdivided according to the political developments and successive regional forces that controlled the nation’s territory throughout the centuries. At the end of each section, an individual chapter discusses the foremost cultural and artistic developments of the period, engaging perspectives on literature, music, and the visual arts, including cinema. Through its multifaceted approach, the book explores economic history, foreign policy, education and social history, as well as literary and artistic history to reveal the multiethnic and culturally diversified nature of Brazil in all its fullness.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.
Critical Marxism in Mexico
In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría have made to universal thought. While in recent times Latin America has taken its distance from global power centers, and reorganised its political and economic relations, in philosophy the same tendency is barely visible. Critical Marxism in Mexico is a contribution to the reorganisation of international philosophical discussion, with Critical Theory as the point of departure. Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the life and philosophy of Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez and Bolívar Echeverría, former senior faculty members at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Religion and Law in Brazil
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how Brazil deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion is approached. Coverage proceeds from the principle of religious freedom through the rights and contractual obligations of religious communities; international, transnational, and regional law effects; and the legal p...
A Grande Família
O livro analisa a primeira versão do seriado A Grande Família, exibido pela Rede Globo, a partir da entrada de Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha), Armando Costa e, posteriormente, Paulo Pontes na redação do programa, entre 1973 e 1975. Usando o conceito de ambivalência, desenvolvido tanto por Pierre Laborie quanto por Mikhail Bakhtin, o texto se divide em quatro capítulos. O primeiro tenta entender as relações entre intelectuais de esquerda e Rede Globo, no contexto da ditadura militar brasileira. O segundo e o terceiro investigam o seriado em seus aspectos gerais, bem como estudam, com maior detalhamento, sete episódios, dentre roteiros e videotapes (VTs). Por fim, o último capítulo pesquisa 110 pareceres da Censura Federal acerca do programa, avaliando a recepção de A Grande Família por um órgão federal.
Fascismo Estrutural e a Memória da Sociedade
O mundo ocidental, nas primeiras décadas do século XXI, se vê às voltas com manifestações muito semelhantes às que ocorreram nas décadas de 20 e 30 do século XX. A extrema direita se avoluma, assim como os ingredientes político-econômicos que a estimulavam: crises macroeconômicas, carestia, insegurança de empregos, frustrações de expectativas, de estabilidade, de empregabilidade, de renda, de seguridade social, etc. Como é amplamente reconhecido, o fascismo é, sobretudo, filho do medo e, como decorre desse afeto, seu desdobramento tende a ser a violência. Violência e medo se implicam mutuamente no mundo da consequencialidade comportamental social. O fascismo se apropria de afetos como o recalque, a insegurança, o desamparo e a vulnerabilidade, e os mobiliza em prol do ódio. O ódio que alimenta a organização de movimentos, partidos que prometem amparo, segurança, superioridade. Enfim, são ilusões, mas as ilusões são poderosas pois constroem presentes, constroem a realidade prática que se materializa a partir da ação dos indivíduos.
Vianinha no Centro Popular de Cultura (CPC da UNE): nacionalismo e militância política em “Brasil: versão brasileira” (1962)
Nas décadas de 1950 e 1960, viveu-se no Brasil um momento de intensificação da arte engajada, marcado por um contexto no qual muitos artistas, no ímpeto de transformação da sociedade, incorporaram em suas obras, suas pretensões políticas. Essa concepção fez parte de um período onde as ideias de uma “cultura revolucionária” promoveram um discurso de que um país como o Brasil era capaz de produzir obras com caráter “nacional” e “popular”, a fim de superar seu subdesenvolvimento. Tais manifestações contribuíram para a estruturação de um meio de produção cultural definido pelo engajamento artístico. Este livro discute as críticas e autocríticas produzidas a um...
