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The Art of Brasília: 2000-2019

The Art of Brasília: 2000-2019

Beal, Sophia

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

General ArtGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesLatino Studies

ISBN10: 3030371360
ISBN13: 9783030371364
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 30 2020
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

People from outside of Brasília often dismiss Brazil's capital as socially divided, boring, corrupt, and emotionally cold. Apparently its founders created not a vibrant capital, but a cultural wasteland. However, as Sophia Beal argues, Brasília's contemporary artists are out to prove the skeptics wrong. These twenty-first-century artists are changing how people think about the city and animating its public spaces. They are recasting Brasília as a vibrant city of the arts in which cultural production affirms a creative right to the city. Various genres--prose, poetry, film, cultural journalism, music, photography, graffiti, street theater, and street dance--play a part. Brasília's initial 1960s art was state-sanctioned, carried out mainly by privileged, white men. In contrast, the capital's contemporary art is marked by its diversity, challenging norms about who has a voice within the Brasília art scene. This art demystifies the capital's inequities and imagines alternative ways of inhabiting the city.

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