Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890-1945 by Rafael Cardoso

Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890-1945
Rafael Cardoso
Page: 288
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781108481908
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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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.

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