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Art
and Tropicália:
After
music, Tropicalia's influence on Brazilian
Art cannot be overstated. Indeed, most historians
generally credit Hélio Oiticica and
his 1967 exhibit in São Paulo as
the singular event which ignited Tropicália's
brief explosion on Brazilian culture.
While
the Brazilian arts world was substantially
eclipsed by the musical trends set into
motion by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso,
Gal Costa and Os Mutantes (to name but a
few), it is fair to say that the Arts world
provided a purer vision for the socially
deconstructive meaning of the Tropicália
movement.
Much
has been written on the role of the Brazilian
Arts community in São Paulo during
the mid-60's, but we have found that most
overviews fail at providing the wide ranging
context for the works of Oiticica and his
contemporary, Lygia Clark, who delved deeply
into the exploration of sensory realignment
to shift the physical perspective of the
viewer.
Therefore,
our editors have provided the following
list of links for you to explore. Please
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page when you've finished with each article.
Exhibit
Shows Tastes, Sounds and Sights of Tropicalia
By Mira Oberman
click
here
Lygia
Clark and Hélio Oiticica:
A Legacy of Interactivity and Participation
for a Telematic Future
by Simone Osthoff
click
here
Tactile
dematerialization, sensory politics:
Hélio Oiticica's Parangoles
by Anna Dezeuze
click
here
Hélio
Oiticica: Myth of the Outlaw:
By Edward Leffingwell
click
here
Hélio
Oiticica and the notion of the popular in
the 1960s
By Michael Asbury
click
here
The
Dark Side of Tropicalia
By Alexandre Matias
click
here
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