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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Brazilian Art"”.
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Hélio Oiticica: Politics and Ambivalence in 20th Century Brazilian Art
… of cultural politics from modern to contemporary art in Brazil. It focuses on the development of modern art leading to the work of Hélio Oiticica, whose approach to avant-garde practice in Brazil was concurrent with intense articulations between the forces of social change and re-evaluations of …
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Introduction to Brazilian art song: a pedagogical guide and analysis for selected art songs for use in the voice studio
The underrepresentation of Brazilian art song in international concert venues and studio teaching is linked to restricted access to scores, the absence of an official International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for Brazilian Portuguese, and a lack of knowledge regarding Brazilian music history. This …
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O nacionalismo em Theodoro Braga: posturas e inquietações na construção de uma arte brasileira
Study the artistic path taken by the Brazilian artist, born in the State of Pará, Theodoro José da Silva Braga, or Theodoro Braga (1872-1953), bachelor of Laws, who chose the artistic and teaching career. Graduated by Brazilian National School of Fine Arts (Escola Nacional de Belas Artes – ENBA) in …
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Estevão Silva e a pintura de naturezas mortas no Brasil do século XIX
… historiographic interest in nineteenth-century Brazilian art, still-life painting remains almost an unexplored field. This research intends to displace the lack of studies on the theme by approaching the work of one of the most distinguished still-life painters among us, Estevão Roberto da Silva …
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The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power
<p>Two competing artistic representations of Brazilian blackness emerged from 1966 to 1988. The first began in 1966 when the Brazilian government positioned itself as a leading diplomatic partner for newly independent African nations by showcasing black Brazilian art in West Africa. Through …
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Jose Siqueira's Oito canções populares brasileiras : an analytical and interpretative study
… Canções Populares Brasileiras (Eight Popular Brazilian Songs), published in 1955 for voice and piano. The analyses show how the composer used musical materials from Northeastern folklore, Native Brazilian culture, and popular urban musical traditions in the composition of this song set. The …
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An Anthropophagic Legacy: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropofago in Brazilian Anti-Art and the Works of Cildo Meireles
In his 1928 Manifesto Antropófago, the Brazilian poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade encouraged Brazilians to appropriate, consume, digest, and assimilate European theories and styles to enhance the Brazilian avant-garde. Oswald's theory of "cultural cannibalism," or Anthropophagy, has since been …
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Waltércio Caldas: a arte que tece o ar
… on the contemporary world seen through the art object, by the subjective response of the artist to it. In a world where the technological achievements engender a vertiginous time to our quotidian life, while spaces become wide in range though qualitatively exiguous, we bring about an art …
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Estevão Silva e Hélio Oiticica: brasilidade, a sensação revisitada
Investigation into Brazilian visual art, or better still into "Brasilidade". Its raison d'être is to show that there are characteristics of this issue ("Brasilidade") that have remained in the Brazilian art for longer than we imagine at first sight. "Brasilidade" can be defined as a private way of …
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A crítica de arte no Brasil em fins do século XIX e início do XX: Gonzaga Duque e Angyone Costa
… emitted by publications about the history of the art which alerted to the specifity of some works by artists from the crossing of the century, who already signalled a production independent from academic formalism. This modernity was being tirelessly built by Gonzaga Duque’s critical work, whose …
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"Systems and feedback: Cildo Meireles's ""Insertions into Ideological Circuits"", 1970-ongoing"
In 1970, Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles began a series of artworks, commonly grouped under the title Insertions into Ideological Circuits, which has since become emblematic of a Latin American art often termed “ideological conceptualism.” This dissertation problematizes the limits of this …
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Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
… investigates how non-academic agents (i.e. artists, curators, and institutions) helped construct the current canon of Latin American art. It takes as case studies key exhibitions held in Brazil in order to examine how the central concepts of anthropophagy, geometric abstraction, and the …
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Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982
… considers the work of a group of women artists in Brazil during the period of the military dictatorship (1964–1985), working in the genre of “performance-for-camera” (i.e., performance for film and video, rather than for a live audience). The artists are Lygia Pape (1927–2004), Letícia …