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Modernity in black and white : art and image, race and identity in Brazil, 1890-1945 /

"The book provides a deeper understanding of modern art in the Brazilian context, moving the focus away from the self-declared avant-gardes and towards a broad panorama of modernizing tendencies throughout the period, 1890 to 1945. The backdrop of sertão, favelas, carnival and samba - often lef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denis, Rafael Cardoso (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Afro-Latin America.
Subjects:
Modernism (Art) > Brazil.
Art and race.
Art and society > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Art and society > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Art and society.
Modernism (Art)
Brazil.
1800-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Ambiguous modernities and alternate modernisms
  • Heart of darkness in the bosom of the modern metropolis : favelas, race and barbarity
  • A pagan festival for the up to date : art, bohemianism and carnival
  • The printing of modern life : a new art for a new century
  • The cosmopolitan savage : modernism, primitivism and the anthropophagic descent
  • The face of the land : depicting 'real' Brazilians under Vargas
  • Epilogue. Images of a culture at war with itself.