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New. A fascinating look at modernist urban planning and spatial theories in Brazilian 20th-century art and architecture Exploring the intersections among art, architecture, and urbanism in Brazil from the 1920s through the 1960s, Adrian Anagnost shows how modernity was manifested in locally specific spatial forms linked to Brazil's colonial and imperial past. Discussing the ways artists and architects understood urban planning as a tool to reorganize the world, control human action, and remedy social problems, Anagnost offers a nuanced account of the seeming conflict between modernist aesthetics and a predominately poor and historically disenfranchised urban public, with particular attention to regionalist forms of urban development. Organized as a series of case studies of projects such as Flavio de Carvalho's performative urbanism, the construction of the Ministry of Education and Public Health building, Lina Bo and Pietro Maria Bardi's efforts to modernize Brazilian museums, and…
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- Title Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil
- Author Adrian Anagnost
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press
- ISBN 9780300254013 / 0300254016
- Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
- Dimensions 10.24 x 8.11 x 0.87 in (26.01 x 20.60 x 2.21 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
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- Library Journal, 02/01/2023, Page 75
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