| The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil Contributor(s): Martins (Author), Grigera (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004323228 ISBN-13: 9789004323223 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $162.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Series: Historical Materialism Book |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.40 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Bras lia 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. |