The Art of Brasília: 2000-2019 (Paperback)
Paperback 272 pages English January 30, 2021
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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.
- Author:
- Sophia Beal
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- January 30, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 272 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 3030371395
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030371395