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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... Painting was also widely practiced , but since the canvas for most painting was the human body it has not survived . As Pero Vaz da Caminha mentioned in his letter to King Manuel , bodies dyed partly black were common , but red and ...
... painting coincided chronologically . The subject matter of Bra- zilian painting in the nineteenth century became increasingly national . The best still life painters painted tropical fruits , and some of the best genre painters earned ...
... painting styles became known as the " eclectic- academic " style , a sumptuous but not very clearly defined style Brazilians refer to as “ wedding cake . " The prime representative of this last phase before Modernism was Eliseu D'Angelo ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
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