TY - BOOK ID - 78677345 TI - The long roots of formalism in Brazil AU - Martins, Luiz Renato. AU - Grigera, Juan. AU - Rezende, Renato PY - 2017 SN - 9004362304 9789004362307 9789004323223 9004323228 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Art, Brazilian KW - Architecture KW - Architecture. KW - Buildings KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Brazilian art KW - Themes, motives. KW - History KW - Design and construction KW - 1900-1999 KW - Brazil. KW - al-Barāzīl KW - Barāzīl KW - Brasil KW - Brasile KW - Brasilia KW - Brasili KW - Brasilien KW - Brazili KW - Brazili Federativlă Respubliki KW - Brazilia KW - Brazilii͡ KW - Brazilii͡a Federativ Respublikaḣy KW - Braziliya KW - Braziliya Federativ Respublikası KW - Brazilská federativní republika KW - Brazylia KW - Brésil KW - Burajiru KW - Federale Republiek van Brasili KW - Federative Republic of Brazil KW - Federativna republika Brazil KW - Federativna republika Brazilii͡ KW - Federat͡siėm Respublikė Brazil KW - Fedėratyŭnai͡a Rėspublika Brazilii͡ KW - Gweriniaeth Ffederal Brasil KW - Pa-hsi KW - Pa-se KW - Pa-se Liân-pang Kiōng-hô-kok KW - Pederatibong Republika sa Brasil KW - Pindorama KW - República Federal del Brasil KW - Republica Federale di u Brasile KW - Republica Federativa del Brazil KW - República Federativa do Brasil KW - Rèpublica fèdèrativa du Brèsil KW - Republik Kevreel Brazil KW - République fédérative du Brésil KW - Tantasqa Republika Wrasil KW - Tetã Pindorama KW - Wrasil UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78677345 AB - The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’. The grand project of Brasília is the main theme of the first two chapters, which treat the ‘ideal city’ as a case study in the ways in which creative talent in Brazil has been made to serve in the reproduction of social iniquities whose origins can be traced back to the agrarian latifundia. Further chapters scrutinise the socio-historical basis of Brazilian art, and develop, against the grain of the most prominent art historical approaches to modern Brazilian culture, a critical approach to the distinctly Brazilian visual language of geometrical abstraction. The book contends that, from the fifties up to today, formalism in Brazil has expressed the hegemony of the market. ER -