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“claudia calirman”

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  • Dissident Practices

    Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s–2020s

    by Claudia Calirman ...
    In Dissident Practices, Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present, covering the period from the military dictatorship to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s, the social changes of the 2000s, the rise of the Right in the late-2010s, and the recent development of an overtly feminist art practice. Though ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Brazilian Art under Dictatorship

    Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles

    by Claudia Calirman ...
    Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a sophisticated analysis of the intersection of politics and the visual arts during the most repressive years of Brazil's military regime, from 1968 until 1975. Raised in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship, the curator and art historian Claudia Calirman describes how Brazilian visual artists addressed the political situation and opened up the local art scene ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical ... Read more

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  • Performance

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    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
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  • Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

    Edited by Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn ...
    This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. ... Read more

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  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

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    The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

    by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto ... Read more

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  • Portrait of a Young Painter

    Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation

    by Mary Kay Vaughan ...
    In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that ... Read more

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  • Contracultura

    Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

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