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The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil) |
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Culture: Icons, symbols, and monuments
Culture: Rehabilitation of traditions and country culture
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Photo by Malcolm McNee. Reproduced by permission. |
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Unsigned collage/painting from the state of Espírito Santo displayed during the National Week of Brazilian Culture and Agrarian Reform, Rio de Janeiro, 2002. Reminiscent of surrealist collage, the work draws on an eclectic set of images celebrating both the natural environment and the human desire for its transcendence, through spiritual and technological invention and faith. |
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November 2002 |
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UNSIGNED186
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Painting and Sculpture
Individual artists portray the dignity and hopes of the Landless, helping
to re-signify the term from a negative -- those without the means of production
and social reproduction -- into a positive. Paintings and sculptures also
draw upon and further invest with meaning symbols of the collective history
and aspirations of the MST: tools, the fence, the movement's flag; the
land, both as barren and divided and as lush and accommodating human habitation.
Else R P Vieira
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