Tarsila do Amaral: Cannibalizing Modernism

Featuring a tip-on cover images and paper changes throughout, Cannibalizing Modernism is the first comprehensive English-language catalogue on the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), a key figure in Latin American modernism. Cannibalizing Modernism reproduces 233 paintings alongside documents and photographs.After studying with Fernand Léger and André Lhote in Paris, Tarsila—as she is widely known in Brazil—cannibalised modern European references to create a unique style, with the use of caipira (rural Brazilian) colours and representations of local characters and scenes. Much of her work was made in dialogue with two leading modernist thinkers of her time, Mário de Andrade and Oswald de Andrade. Her work also parallels the development of Oswald de Andrade's antropofagia, a key concept in 20th-century Latin American thought, through which intellectuals of the tropics would cannibalise European cultural references, while also bringing indigenous, Afro-Atlantic and local elements into their work.
ISBN 9788531000706. MASP. hb. 360 pages. 358 colour ills. 20.3 x 27.3 cm.
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