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Publication Date
3-2-2009
Description
88. Auto-retrato com índios Carajás (Self-portrait with Carajá Indians), 1968. Carlos Vergara, like Glauco Rodriguez, painted himself with Indians or as an Indian. Unlike the romanticized Indians of the late Nineteeth-century academic art, these Pop Art Indians owe more to Montaigne's cannibal than to Roussea's Noble Savage. Like the indigenous element in Antropofagia, the Indian refers back to the early histories of the European encounter with Brazilian Indians in an attempt to elaborate a cultural identity for modern Brazil.
Publisher
Latin American and Iberian Institute / University of New Mexico
Rights
Brazil Slide Series Collection: This article is copyrighted by the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) of the University of New Mexico. Rights permission is for standard academic, non-commercial, use of these materials. Proper citation of this material should include title, author, publisher, date, and URL. Copyright Latin American and Iberian Institute University of New Mexico 1997
Keywords
Brazil: Modern Brazilian Painting
