Brasília’s contemporary artists are transforming how people think about the city and how they use its public spaces. However, as The Art of Brasília argues, that reputation is outdated. David William Foster, Regents’ Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, Arizona State UniversityPeople from outside of Brasília often dismiss Brazil’s capital as a cultural wasteland. Her secure grasp of the scope of her material and the quality of her analyses confirm her emerging stature as a major voice in contemporary Brazilian cultural studies.” Beal’s study is notable for paying close attention to the importance of popular culture in providing trenchant sociocultural assessments. Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University“This book is an exemplary piece of research, and singular in that Brasília’s cultural production has not previously been systematically examined.
Impressively-researched, fresh, and captivating, this book is a brilliant achievement and will appeal to experts and first-time travelers alike.” The city we find here-though certainly not a modernist utopia-is, like the book itself, anything but unsurprising-a reminder that in the history of urban planning, the unintended happens often.
“Sophia Beal leads readers through the complex debates on Brasília, which enrich and inform her sensitive and wonderfully inspired readings of art.
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