Figuras e brincantes
Subtitle: arte e performance na cultura popular
By: curadoria, Angela Mascelani
Contributors: Casa do Pontal (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Publisher: Museu Casa do Pontal
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Exhibitions; Folk art; Blacks; Folklore; Masks; Casa do Pontal (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Other titles: Arte e performance na cultura popular
Description: Among the many festive activities and imaginary of the Brazilian people in Brazil, we select the Bumba-meu-boi, the cavalhada, Porto Alegre, mamulengo, seahorse, jongo and the fandango. Commemorative edition on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the largest museum of folk art in Brazil, celebrating the art of popular festivity activities like: Bumba-meu-boi, the cavalhada, mamulengo (a type of puppet performance), fandango and jongo (dance and musical genre of black communities). Highlights the donation to the Museum of the large collection of mamulengo assembled by the artist and researcher Adriana Schneider, which joins the collection of "Careta de Cazumba" (masks of Cazumba), provided by photographer and also a researcher Maria Mazzillo.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo Casa do Pontal.
Table of contents: title: Apresentação / Juca Ferreira; title: Figuras e brincantes: arte e performance na cultura popular / Angela Mascelani; title: A festa e seu tempo / Angela Mascelani; title: Bumba-meu-boi e a Careta de Cazumba / Flora Moana Van de Beuque; title: Cavalhada de Pirenópolis; title: Cavalo-marinho; title: Mamulengo / Adriana Schneider; title: Jongo / Hebe Mattos; title: Fandango caiçara / Joana Corrêa; title: Biografia dos artistas; title: Notas biográficas da curadora; title: Museu Casa do Pontal arte na vida e vidas na arte.