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Fordlândia / Suspended Spaces.
Fine Arts Library F2651.F55 F55 2020 1 v. + 1 sheet
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Projet Suspended spaces, author.
- Series:
- Suspended Spaces ; 5
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Ford Motor Company--Influence--History--20th century.
- Ford Motor Company.
- Planned communities--Brazil--Fordlândia--History--20th century.
- Planned communities.
- Rubber plantations--Brazil--Fordlândia--History--20th century.
- Rubber plantations.
- Capitalism--Brazil--Fordlândia--History.
- Capitalism.
- Fordlândia (Brazil)--Colonization--History.
- Fordlândia (Brazil).
- Brazil--Civilization--American influences--History--20th century.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages: illustrations ; 27 cm + 1 folded sheet
- Place of Publication:
- [Dijon?] : Suspended Spaces : Presses du réel, [2020]
- Summary:
- A large-scale project carried out with twenty international artists and researchers around Fordlândia - a town built from 1928 by Henry Ford in the Amazon in order to intensively exploit the rubber tree necessary for the manufacture of tires, which has become a small village in the middle of an industrial heritage with uncertain status - questioning the failure and consequences of the modern Western and colonial project of Fordism in the current political, economic and environmental context. -- Translation of vendor summary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-283).
- Supplementary folded sheet includes an aerial view of Fordlândia.
- Texts by Scott Joseph Allen, Clarisse Alvarenga, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Daniela Aparecida Ferreira, Stefanie Baumann, Romain Bertrand, Patrick Boucheron, André Brasil, Grégory Cormann, Margareth Da Silva Pereira, Alessia de Biase, Susana de Sousa Dias, Pierre Déléage, Philippe Duboÿ, Éric Fassin, Naara Fontinele, Greg Grandin, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Jeremy Hamers, Vinicius Honorato, Caroline Ibos, Valérie Jouve, Jan Kopp, Jacinto Lageira, Daniel Lê, Éric Lecerf, Lise Lerichomme, Luiz Magno Ribeiro, Lúcia Monteiro, Susana Mouzinho, Françoise Parfait, Bruna Rocha, Stéphen Rostain, Gilles A. Tiberghien, Éric Valette, Laurent Vidal.
- ISBN:
- 9782378961909
- 2378961901
- OCLC:
- 1406838355
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