| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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New Directions in Latino American Cultures |
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New directions in Latino American cultures.
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| Contents |
Introduction to the art of Brasília -- Historical overview of the art of Brasília -- Brasília unsettled in João Almino's Cidade Livre -- Creative communion in Nicholas Behr's Brasília -- Ceilândia's art in Adirly Queirós's Branco sai, preto fica -- Poetry slams and Brasília's legacy of verse competitions -- Black contemporary Brasília poets' insurgent books -- Traços, street art, and Brasília's cultural renaissance -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Sophia Beal is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works |
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Print version record |
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Almino, João -- Criticism and interpretation
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Behr, Nicolas -- Criticism and interpretation
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Queirós, Adirley -- Criticism and interpretation
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Behr, Nicolas |
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Arts -- Brazil -- Brasília (Distrito Federal) -- History -- 21st century
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Art -- Brazil -- Brasília (Distrito Federal) -- History -- 21st century
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Art
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Arts
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Brazil -- Brasília (Distrito Federal)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030371371 |
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3030371379 |
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