Biography & True Stories
TARSILA DO AMARAL, THE MODERNIST
by Nádia Battella Gotlib
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In this engaging and reader-friendly biography, the professor and essayist Nádia Batista Gotlib recreates the libertarian trajectory of Tarsila do Amaral, focusing on her private life, her training in art, the modernist circuit and the Pau-brasil and Anthropophagic movements, detailing the painter’s active commitment to defending the diversity of both her art and her affective and personal life. A paradigm of rupture in visual arts and literature, Tarsila do Amaral influenced Brazilian art production and played a leading role in the social mobility of women. This book offers readers a full picture of her intense life and work, deciphering their complexity, originality and worldview.
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Nádia Battella Gotlib is an associate professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), where she taught Portuguese and Brazilian literature. She worked at several Brazilian and foreign universities, such as the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Oxford. She also organized the publication of the formerly unedited text by Elisa Lispector called Old Portraits (Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2011). Among the books she authored are The Definitive Stranger. Poetry and Critic in Adolfo Casais Monteiro and Theory of the Short Story. In 1995, she published a study on the life and work of Clarice Lispector called Clarice, a Life That Tells Itself, and in 2008 she published Clarice Photobiography.
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- Publisher Editions Sesc Sao Paulo
- Publication Date July 2018
- Orginal LanguagePortuguese
- ISBN/Identifier 9788594930750
- Publication Country or regionBrazil
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 100 BRL
- Pages240
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleTarsila do Amaral, a modernista
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2018
- Page size23 x 23 cm (23 x 23) cm
- Illustration149 color and b&w photos
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