The modern culture of Latin America: society and the artist /
"From a heritage of Indian purity, Negroid vitality and Western sophistication came the culture of Latin America. Strongly influenced by social, political and economic events, and torn between the desire for a national identity and longing for European worldliness, the artist has been in an une...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Harmondsworth :
Penguin,
1970.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Pelican book.
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| Summary: | "From a heritage of Indian purity, Negroid vitality and Western sophistication came the culture of Latin America. Strongly influenced by social, political and economic events, and torn between the desire for a national identity and longing for European worldliness, the artist has been in an unenviable position. Yet from this turmoil has arisen an art which is significantly different from Western culture. Rather than being greatly concerned with relationships between the sexes or individual experiences, it is more concerned with social ideals and the plight of the oppressed, or -- and here it achieves its finest vision -- with the love and loyalty of a man for his fellow men. This book with its comprehensive bibliography deals with the period from 1888, when the Modernist poets first emerged, to the present."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | "First published by Pall Mall Press 1967. Revised edition published in Pelican Books 1970."--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 380 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-359) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0140211535 9780140211535 |