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Modernity in black and white : art and image, race and identity in Brazil, 1890-1945 / Rafael Cardoso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denis, Rafael Cardoso, author.
- Series:
- Afro-Latin America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Art)--Brazil.
- Modernism (Art).
- Art and society.
- History.
- Brazil.
- Art and society--Brazil--History--20th century.
- Art and society--Brazil--History--19th century.
- Art and race.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Modernity in Black and White provides a groundbreaking account of modern art and modernism in Brazil. Departing from previous accounts, mostly restricted to the elite arenas of literature, fine art and architecture, the book situates cultural debates within the wider currents of Brazilian life. From the rise of the first favelas, in the 1890s and 1900s, to the creation of samba and modern carnival, over the 1910s and 1920s, and tracking the expansion of mass media and graphic design, into the 1930s and 1940s, it foregrounds aspects of urban popular culture that have been systematically overlooked. Against this backdrop, Cardoso provides a radical re-reading of Antropofagia and other modernist currents, locating them within a broader field of cultural modernization. Combining extensive research with close readings of a range of visual cultural production, the volume brings to light a vast archive of art and images, all but unknown outside Brazil.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108680356
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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