Rafael Cardoso

aspectos da história gráfica, 1870-1960

O design brasileiro antes do design

Rafael Cardoso Denis

"The book provides a deeper understanding of modern art in the Brazilian context, moving the focus away from the self-declared avant-gardes and towards a broad panorama of modernizing tendencies throughout the period, 1890 to 1945. The backdrop of sertão, favelas, carnival and samba - often left out of accounts that restrict readings of modernism to erudite arenas like literature, fine art or architecture - are foregrounded in an attempt to situate artistic discourses within the social and political struggles of the period. Race, class and ideological conflict are given priority as tools for deconstructing complex debates, too often taken at face value or misread as merely reflexive of European phenomena. The anthropophagic movement (Antropofagia) rates special attention in teasing out the meanings of primitivism in the Brazilian context. The book examines a range of visual cultural materials including paintings, periodicals, graphics and photographs, revealing a hidden archive that calls into question the very essence of how modernism is usually perceived in Brazil. The enduring presence of archaism and violence behind an appearance of modernity reveals itself to be not an anomaly, but rather a product of the tensions inherent to the enduring oligarchical structures of Brazilian culture and society"--

Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890-1945

Modernity in Black and White

O presente livro oferece uma introdução à evolução histórica do design, no Brasil e no mundo. A tarefa é grande e cabe enfatizar que constitui uma abordagem apenas inicial, uma introdução a uma área de estudo vasta e ainda pouco explorada. Cada capítulo e cada tópico dariam (como já deram alguns) outros tantos livros e nenhum volume poderia dar conta de todos os aspectos de um tema tão rico, complexo e variado. A obra privilegia as grandes tendências sociais e culturais que condicionaram o desenvolvimento do design, trata-se nesse sentido, de uma história social do design.

Uma introdução à história do design

In his first single-authored English-language work, Rafael Cardoso offers a re-evaluation of modern art and modernism in Brazil.

Rafael Cardoso

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