Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil

The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil

Grigera, Juan
Renato Martins, Luiz

Paperback

Series: Historical Materialism, Book 157

General ArtGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1608460827
ISBN13: 9781608460823
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Feb 5 2019
Pages: 323
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 Brasília 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.

Also in

General Sociology

View All