Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
"In this essay, I use three nontraditional forms from the visual culture of colonial Brazil—Tupinambá featherwork, Portuguese Atlantic mandinga pouches, and azulejos (tilework)— in order to meditate upon materiality and temporality as methodological problems with which our discipline should engage. Each of these art forms has historical trajectories that span cultures, continents, and centuries, a circumstance that raises questions as to how such diverse and stubbornly nonhistoricizable genres can be melded into a coherent historical narrative of the visual and material cultures specific to 'Brazil,' especially when two of them — the mandinga bags and azulejos — are not intrinsically Brazilian."
Recommended Citation
Buono, Amy. "Historicity, Achronicity, and the Materiality of Cultures in Colonial Brazil." Getty Research Journal 7 (2015): 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1086/680732
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
University of Chicago Press
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Comments
This article was originally published in Getty Research Journal, volume 7, in 2015. DOI: 10.1086/680732