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Product Description

A Guggenheim Museum Publication

With the participation of Nelson Aguilar, Emanoel Araujo, Germano Celant, Mari Marino, and Robert Stam

This magnificent volume-and the exhibition it accompanies at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-is a soaring tribute to the harmonious nature of Brazilian art and culture. Juxtaposing Baroque masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries with essential works of modern and contemporary art as well as indigenous and Afro-Brazilian arts, the book's editors explore the integration of sensorial and spiritual experience in Brazilian art-the union of body and soul.

Included are some 350 paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects, ranging from a monumental Baroque altarpiece to contemporary photographic works and installations. Throughout, the text reveals the deep cultural links between the different periods, tracing the indigenous, African, and European influences in Brazilian art from the Baroque era to the present.
Approximately 350 illustrations, 500 pages, 10 x 12"

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1295982 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 600 pages

From Publishers Weekly
For some years, New York's Guggenheim Museum, whether exhibiting Harley Davidsons or opening a branch gallery in Las Vegas, has valued glitz and glitter, and its major new show about the country of Carnaval seems a good fit. Sullivan (Painting in Spain, 1650-1700) is chairman of NYU's Department of Fine Arts and one of the curators of the show, which after a run in Manhattan this fall and winter will travel to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. Divided among large-scale sections like "Baroque Brazil," "Afro-Brazilian Culture," "Modern Brazil" and "Contemporary Brazil," the stars of the show of this massive catalogue are the more than 350 full-page illustrations, brilliantly reproduced. Among the highlights is a riotous painting of dancing, stunningly disrobed Tapuya Indians by the 17th-century Dutch painter Albert Eckhout. An anonymous 18th-century polychromed and gilded wood Saint Elesbao is an astonishing example of the so-called "black saints." Most of the modernist work disappoints, but other 20th-century practitioners like concretist Halio Oiticica and the embroidery artist Arthur Bispo Do Rosario are real finds. In general, the essays from various scholars stick to the theme of combined sensual and religious aspects, the "body and soul" of the subtitle an overfamiliar way of categorizing the country, its people and its art, and less than enlightening on subjects like architecture and cinema. Still, the images convey more than enough of their ostensible subject, and will be difficult for readers to exhaust. (Jan.) Forecast: This thick book's attractively modish orange cover may draw in browsers, but the price tag will deter many of them from making it to the register. Still, the Guggenheim, which recently announced layoffs that could reach a reported 40% of its staff, should generate adequate museum shop sales as tourism picks up in New York, and later in Bilbao.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Published to coincide with the New York Guggenheim's exhibition of the same name, which runs through January 2002 before moving to Bilbao, this exhaustive catalog is as extravagant as the show itself. This is the first time that the Guggenheim has devoted an entire exhibition to the art of a single Latin American country. Because of Brazil's geographical size and complex multiracial and multicultural heritage (which includes indigenous, African, and both Portuguese and Dutch components), the terrain covered by the show is a parade of explosive and varied influences. Body and Soul concentrates on two principal areas of Brazil's art history: the 16th-18th centuries' heavily Portuguese-influenced Baroque period and the 20th-century period of self-reflection and hybrid reinvention, coined as antropofagia ("cannibalism") in the 1920s by Brazilian intellectuals Oswald de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral. Within these categories, the book also includes a look at 20th-century Afro-Brazilian art, the contemporary environmental sculpture of Ernesto Neto, cinema, and architecture. Sullivan (fine arts, New York Univ.) features several analytical essays by the likes of Robert Stam, Emanoel Ara#jo, and Cristina Avila that attempt to untangle the mystery of the creation of Brazil's national identity. Ranging from the oil portraits of semiclothed natives in proper European poses painted by Dutch artist Albert Eckhout in 1641 to intricately carved, handpainted wood oratories, or altars, to Afro-Brazilian religion-inspired wood replicas of saints, these works express the earthly and spiritual essence of Brazil's kaleidoscopic imagination. Highly recommended for all art collections. Adriana Lopez, "Cr!ticas"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
What enormous efforts were involved in creating the unprecedented exhibition of Brazilian art documented and augmented by this exceptional volume, not to mention the production of the book itself. Editor Sullivan provides the background story for this grand survey of Brazilian art in the first of an impressive series of fresh and illuminating essays. As he explains, due to Brazil's "linguistic isolation" (it's an island of Portuguese in a sea of Spanish), violent exploitation of people (slavery existed into the 1880s) and resources (especially the rain forests), and hedonistic reputation (thanks to Rio's famed Carnival), the country's visual arts have been overlooked by outside art historians. No more. Sullivan and his expert contributors, including Roberto DaMatta, who succinctly defines Brazil's ambiguous blend of the sacred and the profane, order and disorder, avidly discuss indigenous art, Catholicism and Brazilian baroque, the crucial role of the African ethos and the vitality of Afro-Brazilian art past and present, the heroic age of Brazilian modernism, and the powerful work of contemporary artists, all presented in glorious reproductions. Donna Seaman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Customer Reviews

The soul of Brazil
Brazil Body and Soul is a 600 page tome that covers Brazil's artistic history from the early 1500's until the 1990's.
The book is filled with intelligentlly detailed writing and artistically lush with photographs.
This is a book (not a skimpy museum catalog) for anyone interested in the art and culture of Brazil; or a useful reference tool for someone interested in the arts of this grand nation.
When you purchase this book, I believe you will pleasantly amazed by the arts throughout the centuries in Brazil. This is not a book for those who only want to look at photos or decorate their coffee tables; this is for those who want to expand their horizons of the Americas.