Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... artistic academies , sponsoring exhibitions , and providing scholarships for young artists to study abroad . The French Artistic Mission and invited visits by other European artists produced a curious situation — much of the most famous ...
... artistic documentaries of Brazilian life of the period . Brazilian artists were important as well , but most of them were trained by the French and simply reproduced art which catered to the rather conser- vative tastes of the court ...
... artists , not the “ masters " previous generations had gone to study ) . The Malfatti exhibition touched off a storm of contro- versy between conservative and radical critics and artists . Both Expressionism and Cubism were referred to ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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