Modernidade em preto e branco
Subtitle: arte e imagem, raça e identidade no Brasil, 1890-1945
By: Rafael Cardoso
Edition: Edição brasileira.
Publisher: Companhia das Letras
Published: 2022
Place of publication: [São Paulo, Brazil]
Language: por
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9786559212705
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Art and society; History; Black Artists; Social conditions; Race in art; Black people in art; Modernism (Art); Art and race; Civilization; African influences; Art et société; Histoire; Artistes noirs; Conditions sociales; Race dans l'art; Noirs dans l'art; Modernisme (Art); Art et race
Work titles: Modernity in black and white
Description: "Black and white" refers not only to racial disparities but also to tensions between elite culture and an incipient mass culture that has found expression in media such as photography and graphic arts (formerly referred to in English-language sources such as black and white art). In the Brazilian context, the intersection between exclusions according to racist and class criteria makes it almost impossible to think them in isolation. Generally understood as an elite movement, Brazilian modernism is usually associated with a so-called São Paulo group. However, from the emergence of the first favelas in the 1890s and 1900s to the reinvention of Carnival in the 1930s and 1940s, through the boom of new and media photography, modernism has crossed several social classes and geographical areas. In this book, Rafael Cardoso offers a radical rereading of the movement, bringing to light elements absolutely central to its unfolding that are not only in São Paulo lands. Illustratated with a hundred images, Modernity in black and white combines extensive research with an engaging prose, which guides the reader through various areas of Brazilian society between 1890 and 1945.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nota à edição brasileira; title: Introdução: Modernidades ambíguas e modernismos alternativos; title: 1. Coração das trevas no seio da metrópole moderna: Favelas, raça e barbárie; title: 2. Uma festa pagã para a modernidade: Arte, boemia e Carnaval; title: 3. A impressão da vida moderna: Uma nova arte para o novo século; title: 4. O selvagem cosmopolita: Modernismo, primitivismo e a descida antropofágica; title: 5. A face da terra: O Estado Novo e a busca pelo tipo brasileiro; title: Epílogo.