Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-400) and index.
Contents:
Modernismo and the break with academic art, 1890-1934 -- The avant-garde of the 1920s : cosmopolitan or national identity? -- Social, ideological, and nativist art : the 1930s, 1940s, and after -- Surrealism, wartime, and new world imagery, 1928-1964 -- Torres-García's constructive universalism and the abstract legacy -- New museums, the São Paulo Biennial, and abstract art -- Functionalism, integration of the arts, and the postwar architectural boom -- Geometric, optical, and kinetic art from the 1950s through the 1970s -- Brazilian concrete and neoconcrete art and their offshoots -- Neofiguration, pop, and environments : the 1960s and 1970s -- Graphic art, painting, and conceptualism as ideological tools -- Some trends of the 1980s and early 1990s -- Toward a new century.
Series:
The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
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