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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... famous art and architecture produced in Brazil in the early nineteenth century was produced by foreign- ers . Brazil's great Neoclassical architect , Grandjean de Montigny ( 1776– 1850 ) , and its most famous landscape artist , Nicolas ...
... famous Brazilian painters of the late nineteenth century , Pedro Américo ( de Figueireido e Melo ) ( 1843-1915 ) . Pedro Américo was fond of paintings inspired by Biblical motifs , but he became famous for his Batalha de Avaí ( 1888 ) ...
... famous cannibalist paintings are Abaporu and Urutu ( both 1928 ) , Cub- ist pieces in which perspective and proportion are eliminated to produce figures which only suggest human forms in a mythic , tropical space . Many other Brazilian ...
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Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
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