Research Catalog

Title

Os trópicos : visões a partir do centro do globo / [organização, Alfons Hug, Peter Junge, Viola König].

Publication

Brasília ; Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, [2007].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hug, Alfons
• Junge, Peter.
• König, Viola
• Cabot, Roberto.
• Escobar, Ticio, 1947-
• Cocchiarale, Fernando
• Banco do Brasil. Centro Cultural.

Description

189 p. : col. ill.; 32 cm.

Summary

The exhibition gathers artwork by contemporary artists from various countries displayed along more than 100 ancient art pieces of the tropical regions of Asia, Latin America and Africa from the holdings of the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. The aim of the event is to determine and identify the relationship between the artwork created previous to modernity and contemporary art, highlighting the radical differences and fundamental influence of the "Art of the Tropics", and how this aesthetic richness of strong spiritual content lost its innocence and has transformed into Third World "primitive" folkart. Catalogue includes critical essays by curators Alfons Hug, Viola König, and Peter Junge and by renowned experts Ticio Escobar and Fernando Cocchiarale.

Alternative Title

• Ostrópicos
• Tropics : views from the middle of the globe
• Tropics : views from de middle of the globe

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Art > Tropics > Exhibitions
• Tropics > In art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Oct. 15, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Mar. 3-May 4, 2004.
• Texts by Alfons Hug, Peter Junge, Viola König, Roberto Cabot, Ticio Escobar, and Fernando Cocchiarale.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In Portuguese and English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The topics: view from the middle of the globe / Alfons Hug -- The tropics. The art and the exhibition / Viola König -- Old art in the tropics / Peter Junge -- From the banana to totalflex / Roberto Cabot -- The art maps. Reflections on the line the tropics / Ticio Escobar -- The tropics do not define us / Fernando Cocchiarale.

ISBN

• 9788585688332
• 8585688335

OCLC

• 277278604
• SCSB-9935989

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library