Brazilian Avant-garde

ブラジル前衛芸術

Dictionary entry

  1. Neo-Concrete Art 1959–1966 / Style

    Frees geometric abstraction from fixed visual order, opening the work to change through bodily participation — touching, moving, entering.

  2. Antropofagia 1928–1930s / Aesthetic

    A Brazilian programme that took cannibalism as its metaphor: do not refuse European culture, eat it and turn it into your own blood. Its affirmation of mixture as a method rather than a weakness has run underneath Brazilian design, music and architecture ever since.

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