{"product_id":"the-long-roots-of-formalism-in-brazil-9781608460823","title":"The Long Roots Of Formalism In Brazil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 Brasilia 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Martins’ deeply engaged and richly informed reflections on the particularities of the Brazilian situation analyse the vicissitudes of artistic and architectural modernism as it took shape in Brazil in the mid-twentieth century, and its subsequent replacement by an apolitical formalist aestheticism in the postmodern age of neoliberal capitalism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlex Potts, Max Loehr Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eCredits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eAlex Potts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    From Formation to Dismantling    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Strategies of Occupying Space in Brazil, from Tarsila to Oiticica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 ‘Free Form’: Brazilian Mode of Abstraction or a Malaise in History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 All This Geometry, Where Does It Come from, Where Does It Go?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Trees of Brazil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 The Situation of Art and the ‘Pensée Unique’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Formation and Dismantling of a Brazilian Visual System\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    From Dismantling to Struggle    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 From the Debate about Formation to Strike as Formation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 The Indignity of São Paulo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Art against the Grain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Against Formalism: Art, History and Criticism    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 Work, Art and History: A Counterpoint between Periphery and Centre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 Notes on Modernisation, from the Periphery: On David Craven’s ‘Alternative Modernism’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 Art as Work (Interview)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13 International Benefit Society of Friends of Form and Bulletin on the Brazilian Division\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Artworks Cited\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359711822167,"sku":"9781608460823","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781608460823.jpg?v=1754125484","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-long-roots-of-formalism-in-brazil-9781608460823","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}