Culture Wars in Brazil
Subtitle: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780822327196
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Brazil; History; Politics and culture; History: World; Latin America - South America; History, Latin American; Latin American Studies; Anthropology - Cultural; Latin America - General; 1930-1945; 20th century; Cultural policy; Politics and government
First sentence: At the height of the authoritarian Estado Novo, the infamous Department of Press and Propaganda published an essay, written by Oswaldo Teixeira, director of the National Museum of Fine Arts and well-known painter, which acclaimed Getulio Vargas as a peer to Cosimo de Medici, the wealthy fifteenth-century banker who helped make Florence into the political and cultural epicenter of the Italian Renaissance.