The Art of Brasilia - 2000-2019 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)

People from outside of Brasilia often dismiss Brazil's capital as socially divided, boring, corrupt, and emotionally cold. Apparently its founders created not a vibrant capital, but a cultural wasteland. However, as Sophia Beal argues, Brasilia's contemporary artists are out to prove the skeptics wrong. These twenty-first-century artists are changing how people think about the city and animating its public spaces. They are recasting Brasilia as a vibrant city of the arts in which cultural production affirms a creative right to the city. Various genres-prose, poetry, film, cultural journalism, music, photography, graffiti, street theater, and street dance-play a part. Brasilia's initial 1960s art was state-sanctioned, carried out mainly by privileged, white men. In contrast, the capital's contemporary art is marked by its diversity, challenging norms about who has a voice within the Brasilia art scene. This art demystifies the capital's inequities and imagines alternative ways of inhabiting the city.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Release date:	2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Sophia Beal
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-037139-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	3-03-037139-5
Barcode:	9783030371395

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