Brazil Through French Eyes : A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics.
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- computer
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- 9780826337467
- 918.104/4
- F2513.A73 2015
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rediscovering Brazil -- 1: A Painter in Search of Exoticism -- 2: Tropical Romanticism -- 3: Black Brazil as Satirical Commentary -- 4: In the Womb of the Rain Forest -- 5: Evil Natives -- Conclusion: Multidimensional Tropics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard's Brazil with special attention to what she calls his "tropical romanticism": a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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