Modernity in Black and White - Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 18901945

In his first single-authored English-language work, Rafael Cardoso offers a re-evaluation of modern art and modernism in Brazil.

List of contents

Introduction. Ambiguous modernities and alternate modernisms; 1. Heart of darkness in the bosom of the modern metropolis: favelas, race and barbarity; 2. A pagan festival for the up to date: art, bohemianism and carnival; 3. The printing of modern life: a new art for a new century; 4. The cosmopolitan savage: modernism, primitivism and the anthropophagic descent; 5. The face of the land: depicting 'real' Brazilians under Vargas; Epilogue. Images of a culture at war with itself.

About the author

Rafael Cardoso is a member of the postgraduate faculty in art history at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Instituto de Artes) and a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Lateinamerika-Institut). One of the leading historians of modern art and design in Brazil, he has authored numerous books and essays and curated major museum exhibitions.

Summary

Rafael Cardoso provides a groundbreaking account of artistic modernization in Brazil in his first single-authored English-language publication. He puts popular culture and racial tensions at the center, situating cultural debates within the broader currents of Brazilian life, such as the rise of favelas, carnival, mass media, and dictatorship.

Product details

• Authors: Rafael Cardoso, Rafael (Freie Universitat Berlin) Cardoso, Cardoso Rafael Cardoso
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108481908
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48190-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Afro-Latin America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Brazil, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas