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| Management number | 220810746 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | $28.70 | Model Number | 220810746 | ||
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People from outside of Brasília 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, Brasília’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 Brasília 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. Brasília’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 Brasília art scene. This art demystifies the capital’s inequities and imagines alternative ways of inhabiting the city. Read more
| ISBN10 | 3030371360 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-3030371364 |
| Edition | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Dimensions | 5.83 x 0.63 x 8.27 inches |
| Item Weight | 1 pounds |
| Print length | 269 pages |
| Part of series | New Directions in Latino American Cultures |
| Publication date | January 30, 2020 |
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