Spatial Orders, Social Forms

Art and the City in Modern Brazil

Adrian Anagnost

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Yale University Press
25 October 2022

History of Art & Design Styles; Art & design styles: from c 1960; City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture; History of the Americas

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 Flávio 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 Hélio Oiticica's interstitial works, this study is full of groundbreaking insights into the ways that modernist theories of urbanism shaped the art and architecture of 20th-century Brazil.

By: Adrian Anagnost
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780300254013
ISBN 10: 0300254016
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adrian Anagnost is Jessie Poesch Assistant Professor in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University.

Reviews for Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil

“Spatial Orders, Social Forms is a much-needed account and reconsideration of the many important works, ideas, and social intentions of twentieth century Brazilian art, architecture, and space.”—Luis E. Carranza, author of Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia “Not only very original but also a very necessary, long overdue, and refreshing corrective of ingrained and perceived ideas about Brazilian modernism.”—Anna Indych-López, The Graduate Center & City College (CUNY)