Manuel Cavalcanti (6 results)

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Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 424 pages, 239 color & 108 b/w illustrations - Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927-2004) was a founding member of the Neo-Concrete movement, which was dedicated to the inclusion of art into everyday life. Her early work developed out of an interest in European abstraction; however, she and her contemporaries went beyond simply adopting an international style, and started to draw on their own local situation. Neo-Concretism is often seen as the beginning of contemporary art in Brazil, and Pape's work which focus on the coming together of aesthetic, ethical, and political ideas has formed an important part of Brazil's artistic identity.…

Wrappers. Condition: New. 420 pages 317 illustrations 239 in color. Still in shrink-wrap. Illustrated wraps. Edited by María Luisa Blanco, Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Teresa Velásquez. Book.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Nuevo. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. The exhibition wants to portray Tarsila in a broad context, the one that goes from the virgin forest to the Brazil of the metropolises in which she lived, the one that gathers aspects of the most remote and most recent history of Brazil, the one that includes the trip of going, and back, from the European avant-garde to the impetus and local color of the New World. The exhibition presents the artist from the remote past of her land; and from that virgin forest the Marajoara ceramics and the selection of Amazonian plumarias that are exhibited bear witness. Also accompanying the artist in the exhibition are cartographic and pictorial testimonies of the first European travelers (marine maps and charts, paintings, true documents of anthropophagous customs, by Albert Eckhout and landscaping by Frans Post); some religious pieces with the caipira and naive colors of that baroque from the same lands in the interior of Brazil that Tarsila would visit together with Cendrars and Oswald de Andrade; the watercolors and lithographs by Jean Baptiste Debret and the photographs by Marc Ferrez - testimonies of the first French Artistic Missão in Brazil in the 19th century - or the photographs, shown to the public for the first time, of an unknown Spanish expedition at the end of the 19th century. XIX who traveled through the same Brazil in which Tarsila would be born twenty years later.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Prefácio de António Houaiss. Colecção Documentos Brasileiros, 147 - Dirigida por Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco. Livraria José Olympio. Rio de Janeiro. 1971. De 21x14 cm. Com [xiv], 565, [ii] págs. Brochado. Ilustrado no texto com um retrato do autor a preto e branco e nas páginas finais com esquemas. Exemplar com danos de manuseamento na lombada e capas manuseadas. Language: Português / Portuguese Location/localizacao: SACO RS510-18.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 136. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1914 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: Portuguese Pages: 136.…