Beschreibung:
In his first single-authored English-language work, Rafael Cardoso offers a re-evaluation of modern art and modernism in Brazil.
Introduction. Ambiguous modernities and alternate modernisms; 1. Heart of darkness in the bosom of the modern metropolis: favelas, race and barbarity; 2. A pagan festival for the up to date: art, bohemianism and carnival; 3. The printing of modern life: a new art for a new century; 4. The cosmopolitan savage: modernism, primitivism and the anthropophagic descent; 5. The face of the land: depicting 'real' Brazilians under Vargas; Epilogue. Images of a culture at war with itself.