Creativity of Brazil | Neo-Tropicalia (2008) ISBN: 4872951182 [Japanese Import]

Tropicália is a manifesto of lived art and at the same time, represents the results of an exploration of cultural identity and one's place in a globalized era during the process of modernization of a nation that doesn't lie in the European or American region. In the 21st Century, against a

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background of globalization and the ever-increasing amount of individual information, there is a growing need to objectively examine one's place, the socio-political and the cultural situation, to make a selection and then ingest and masticate these to strengthen and enhance oneself. To question the relationship between art and life today under the name of a new Tropicália is to reevaluate our direction within the dual context of glocality from an ethical, aesthetic, and philosophical context. The Brazilian artists represented in this exhibition convey their attitude through an outstanding equivalence between living and creating.'

(Abstract from page 175)

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