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This exhibition presents new insights into these artists' visual deconstructions of language and examines the connections and collisions among visual art, the word and the social world.
Art produced in the so-called Third World, or by non-European or North American artists, is usually seen as either traditional and folkloric, or a poor imitation of modernism. In art history, the avant-garde has always been associated with the Western metropolis, forgetting that every country has had its own particular relationship with modernity. This book describes a contemporary flourishing of radical artistic experiment in Argentine, Brazil and Chile (or by artists originating from there). The focus and priorities have been different to those of Europe and North America; at the same time, the work intensifies many of the issues which face us all. The nine artists whose work is described ...
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Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March-June 2007.
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Este livro analisa a configuração da noção de trópicos em determinadas produções textuais e visuais brasileiras do final do século XIX e do período de virada entre as décadas de 60 e 70 do século XX, abarcando tanto os discursos oficiais como as contranarrativas produzidas por escritores, artistas e intelectuais das respectivas épocas, tais como Sousândrade, Hélio Oiticica, José Agrippino de Paula e tantos outros. Seja no discurso oficial ou na contraparte artística, o elemento tropical foi posto em circulação para diversos fins, especialmente a serviço da afirmação – às vezes ambígua e oscilante – de certa contribuição brasileira no contexto das nações ocidentais consideradas de maior prestígio cultural, no caso as europeias, e diante do poderio industrial, político e econômico de nações como os Estados Unidos.
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Arranged alphabetically from Eduardo Abela to Francisco Zuniga, this volume provides biographical and career information, as well as critical essays, on prominent Hispanic artists.