The exhibition takes its title borrowed from a controversial work by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles done in the context of
the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1970.
By the 1970s, when artists were engaging with the social and political issues of their time,
the Brazilian military dictatorship (which assumed power in 1964 and lasted for over twenty years) had reached its bleakest period, and its resultant...
By the 1970s, when artists were engaging with the social and political issues of their time,
the Brazilian military dictatorship (which assumed power in 1964 and lasted for over twenty years) had reached its bleakest period, and its resultant brutality became a subject for Maiolino's work.
When OPEC shut off oil supplies,
the Brazilian military dictatorship began the push for one of the most successful biofuel industries in the world
Not exact matches
Dom Helder Camara, the diminutive
Brazilian archbishop who symbolizes Christian opposition to
military dictatorship not only in Brazil but throughout Latin America, was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws at Harvard University in 1974.
Brazilian writer - director João Moreira Salles intercuts his mother's movies of a 1966 group tour in China during the inception of the most radical phase of the Cultural Revolution with archival footage from three other radical movements, all from 1968: The May uprisings in France; the brutal ending of the Prague Spring; and the brief rebellion in Brazil against the reigning
military dictatorship.
Thus, Lauand successfully negotiated the development of
Brazilian avant - garde tendencies after World War II ⎯ ⎯ including the influence and reception of Pop art and New Figuration in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the political disruption initiated during the
military dictatorship ⎯ ⎯ continually buttressing Concretism's critical ideas while formulating her own meaningful intersections with notions of rupture.
From the last years of
military dictatorship to the country's subsequent re-democratisation process,
Brazilian post punk was instrumental in forging an experimentalist and yet popular public sphere.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1961, Milhazes came of age as an artist during a transitional moment in
Brazilian artfollowing the collapse of the
military dictatorship.