The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde
Binnie, Mari Rodríguez
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, in the wake of the installation of Brazil's military dictatorship, artists and art collectives in Brazil used their work to critique the government and its sanitized images of Brazil, its use of torture, and its targeted persecutions. Mari Rodrâiguez Binnie's The Säao Paulo Neo-Avant Garde studies this art and its engagement with politics and mainstream institutions and traditions. During this period Sä...