Brazil: Body and Soul

New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2001. Pictorial boards, xix, 600 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 11, 2001 to January 27, 2002, and at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, March 23 to September 29, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Publisher's mylar jacket in fine condition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Few people saw this blockbuster exhibition because it coincided with 9/11. "This magnificent volume -- and the exhibition it accompanies at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- is a soaring tribute to the harmonious nature of Brazilian art and culture. Juxtaposing Baroque masterpieces from the 17th and 18th centuries with essential works of modern and contemporary art as well as indigenous and Afro-Brazilian arts, the book's editors explore the integration of sensorial and spiritual experience in Brazilian art -- the union of body and soul." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The Encounter; Reviewing Indigenous Arts, Jose Antonio B. Femandes-Dias; Albert Eckhout and Frans Post: Two Dutch Artists in Colonial Brazil, Rebecca Parker Brienen; Catalogue with overviews by Edward Sullivan and Rebecca Parker Brienen; Indigenous Cultures; Albert Eckhout and Frans Post; Baroque Brazil; The Baroque Culture of Brazil Affonso Avila; Brazilian Baroque Art, Cristina Avila; Brazilian Baroque Architecture, Augusto C. da Silva Telles; The Main Altar of Sao Bento de Olinda Augusto C. da Silva Telles; Catalogue with overviews by Edward J. Sullivan; Main Altar, Sao Bento de Olinda; Baroque Sculpture; 0 Aleijadinho; Baroque Painting; Jewelry; Oratories; Baroque Silver; Exhibiting Afro-Brazilian Art Emanoel Araujo; Afro-Brazilian Tradition and Contemporaneity; Juana Elbein dos Santos; African Cosmologies in Brazilian Culture and Society; Maria cia Montes; Catalogue with overview by Edward J. Sullivan; Afro-Brazilian Art; Modern Brazil; Literary and Artistic Culture in Modern Brazil Haroldo de Campos; Places of Modernism in Brazil Icleia Maria Borsa Cattani; From Concretist Paradox to Experimental Exercise of Freedom; Maria Alice Milliet; Apollo in the Tropics: Constructivist Art in Brazil Agnaldo Farias; Catalogue with overviews by Edward Sullivan; Modernism; Concrete Art; Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica; Arthur Bispo do Rosario; Ex-Votos and Mastheads; Nine Times Brazil Nelson Aguilar; A Sensual Metaphysics: Miguel Rio Branco and Vik Muniz; Germ ano Celant; Catalogue with overview by Edward J. Sullivan; Contemporary Projects; Architecture; Toward a Phenomenology of Brazil's Baroque Modernism; David K Underwood; The Spirit of Brasilia: Modernity as Experiment and Risk; James Holston; After the Miracle: Brazilian Architecture 1960-2000; Hugo Segaw; The Baroque, the Modern, and Brazilian Cinema; Robert Stam and Ismail Xavier; Selected Bibliography compiled by Miriam Basilio.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Collectible.