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The Modernist Movement in Brazil
“Ask an authority on Brazilian culture what he considers to be the most significant artistic event in Brazil during this century,” observes John Nist, “and he will quickly reply, ‘The Modern Art Week Exhibition, staged in Sao Paulo in February, 1922.’ This public demonstration and aesthetic manifesto represented a cut with the past, a violent break with tradition unparalleled in Brazilian history. The fact that Brazilians still discuss the poetical renovation achieved by Modernism shows how strongly the movement attacked and questioned traditional attitudes, cherished preconceptions, prejudiced aspects of a national sensibility that still persists, in some quarters, to this day. As...
História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira
"In totally revised and updated edition by the author, that and professor of Brazilian Literature in the University of Sao Paulo, Cultrix presents to a university public this work again for he devoted, since it came to light in 1970, like the best in its genre. Divided into eight parts respectively dedicated to colonial condition, the Baroque, Arcadia and illustration, to Romanticism, the Pre-Modernism and Modernism and contemporary trends, the Concise History of Brazilian Literature, of each one of these moments an appreciation of their different trends by studying the following of its principal authors, about which provides the reader bibliographic data order besides a critical evaluation. And work that is especially recommended the attention of teachers and students of Brazilian Literature, both at the undergraduate or graduate level." --Translation of publisher's review.
2017
Futurism Studies in its canonical form has followed in the steps of Marinetti's concept of Futurisme mondial, according to which Futurism had its centre in Italy and a large number of satellites around Europe and the rest of the globe. Consequently, authors of textbook histories of Futurism focus their attention on Italy, add a chapter or two on Russia and dedicate next to no attention to developments in other parts of the world. Futurism Studies tends to sees in Marinetti's movement the font and mother of all subsequent avant-gardes and deprecates the non-European variants as mere 'derivatives'. Vol. 7 of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies will focus on one of these regions outs...
Terra Madre
This book describes 1,600 Food Communities in 150 countries: from the hatahata fishermen of Kitaura in Japan to the raisin producers of Herat in Afghanistan; from Ethiopian forest coffee pickers to Mexican vanilla growers. Farmers, shepherds, fishermen, pork butchers, vine-dressers...all people who embody a new idea of agriculture based on taste quality, sustainability and social justice. All they demand is fertile soil, clean seas, sufficient water and the free circulation of information, knowledge and produce. Of these communities, 300 are Slow Food Presidia, developed worldwide to save food products in real danger of extinction.
FAZENDA PÚBLICA
No presente momento, a sociedade contemporânea vem passando por mudanças significativas em alguns fenômenos jurídicos, muitos deles envolvendo o papel da Fazenda Pública – sua atuação judicial e extrajudicial. A presente obra pretende discutir diversos aspectos envolvendo os três pilares de sustentação dos conflitos envolvendo o Poder Público: sua atuação em juízo, consensualidade e prerrogativas.
Manifestos and Polemics in Latin American Modern Art
Document 34: What Is the Social Significance of Modern Architecture in Mexico? / Juan O'Gorman
International Futurism in Arts and Literature
This publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media. 20 scholars discuss how the movement shaped the concept of a cultural avant-garde and how it influenced the development of modernist art and literature around the world.
