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In the early twentieth century, Brazil shifted from a nation intent on whitening its population to one billing itself as a racial democracy. Anadelia Romo shows that this shift centered in Salvador, Bahia, where throughout the 1950s, modernist artists and intellectuals forged critical alliances with Afro-Brazilian religious communities of Candomblé to promote their culture and their city. These efforts combined with a growing promotion of tourism to transform what had been one of the busiest slaving depots in the Americas into a popular tourist enclave celebrated for its rich Afro-Brazilian culture. Vibrant illustrations and texts by the likes of Jorge Amado, Pierre Verger, and others contributed to a distinctive iconography of the city, with Afro-Bahians at its center. But these optimistic visions of inclusion, Romo reveals, concealed deep racial inequalities. Illustrating how these visual archetypes laid the foundation for Salvador's modern racial landscape, this book unveils the ways ethnic and racial populations have been both included and excluded not only in Brazil but in Latin America as a whole.

Black people --- City promotion. --- Culture and tourism. --- Social conditions. --- Salvador (Brazil) --- History --- visual culture, Brazil, race in Brazil, Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, art history, Afro-Brazilian, Brazilian art, Brazilian culture. --- 1900-1999

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Art --- Art, Brazilian --- Arts --- Arts, Brazilian --- Art. --- Art, Brazilian. --- Arts. --- Arts, Brazilian. --- Brazilian arts --- Arts, Daghestan --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Brazilian art --- Art, Daghestan --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Visual --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Aesthetics --- visual arts --- art history an theory --- art historiography --- image theory --- visual culture

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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.

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