Brazil : Body and Soul

by Sullivan, Edward J.

• ISBN13: 9780810969339
• ISBN10: 0810969335
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Summary

This magnificent volume -- and the exhibition it accompanies at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- is a soaring tribute to the harmonious nature of Brazilian art and culture. Juxtaposing Baroque masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries with essential works of modern and contemporary art as well as indigenous and Afro-Brazilian arts, the book's editors explore the integration of sensorial and spiritual experience in Brazilian art -- the union of body and soul.

Included are some 350 paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects, ranging from a monumental Baroque altarpiece to contemporary photographic works and installations. Throughout, the text reveals the deep cultural links between the different periods, tracing the indigenous, African, and European influences in Brazilian art from the Baroque era to the present.

Table of Contents

Brazil: Body and Soul	2	(32)
Edward J. Sullivan
Brazil in Historical Context	34	(12)
Michael M. Hall
The Message of Brazilian Rituals: Popular Celebrations and Carnival	46	(6)
Roberto DaMatta
The Encounter	52	(60)
Reviewing Indigenous Arts	54	(8)
Jose Antonio B. Fernandes-Dias
Albert Eckhout and Frans Post: Two Dutch Artists in Colonial Brazil	62	(50)
Rebecca Parker Brienen
Catalogue with overviews
Edward J. Sullivan
Rebecca Parker Brienen
Indigenous Cultures	76	(16)
Albert Eckhout and Frans Post	92	(20)
Baroque Brazil	112	(198)
The Baroque Culture of Brazil Affonso Avila	114	(14)
Brazilian Baroque Art Cristina Avila	128	(10)
Brazilian Baroque Architecture Augusto C. da Silva Telles	138	(12)
The Main Altar of Sao Bento de Olinda Augusto C. da Silva Telles	150	(160)
Catalogue with overviews
Edward J. Sullivan
Main Altar, Sao Bento de Olinda	156	(8)
Baroque Sculpture	164	(74)
O Aleijadinho	238	(16)
Baroque Painting	254	(18)
Jewelry	272	(10)
Oratories	282	(8)
Baroque Silver	290	(20)
Afro-Brazilian Culture	310	(60)
Exhibiting Afro-Brazilian Art Emanoel Araujo	312	(14)
Afro-Brazilian Tradition and Contemporaneity	326	(8)
Juana Elbein dos Santos
African Cosmologies in Brazilian Culture and Society	334	(36)
Maria Lucia Montes
Catalogue with overview
Edward J. Sullivan
Afro-Brazilian Art	346	(24)
Modern Brazil	370	(118)
Literary and Artistic Culture in Modern Brazil Haroldo de Campos	372	(8)
Places of Modernism in Brazil Icleia Maria Borsa Cattani	380	(8)
From Concretist Paradox to Experimental Exercise of Freedom	388	(10)
Maria Alice Milliet
Apollo in the Tropics: Constructivist Art in Brazil Agnaldo Farias	398	(90)
Catalogue with overviews
Edward J. Sullivan
Modernism	406	(36)
Concrete Art	442	(10)
Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica	452	(18)
Arthur Bispo do Rosario	470	(8)
Ex-Votos and Mastheads	478	(10)
Contemporary Brazil	488	(36)
Nine Times Brazil	490	(8)
Nelson Aguilar
A Sensual Metaphysics: Miguel Rio Branco and Vik Muniz	498	(26)
Germano Celant
Catalogue with overview
Edward J. Sullivan
Contemporary Projects	504	(20)
Architecture	524	(46)
Toward a Phenomenology of Brazil's Baroque Modernism	526	(14)
David K. Underwood
The Spirit of Brasilia: Modernity as Experiment and Risk	540	(18)
James Holston
After the Miracle: Brazilian Architecture 1960-2000	558	(12)
Hugo Segawa
Cinema	570	(17)
The Baroque, the Modern, and Brazilian Cinema	572	(15)
Robert Stam
Ismail Xavier
Selected Bibliography	587
Miriam Basilio