"Brazilian Art under Dictatorship is a welcome contribution to a growing body of scholarly work about cultural production in Brazil under authoritarian rule. Through meticulous archival research, Claudia Calirman illuminates the work of three great experimental artists of the 1970s who pursued distinct artistic strategies. She succeeds in showing how their work responded to the specific context of censorship and violence in Brazil, while remaining engaged in an international dialogue about the changing politics of art in contemporary societies." --Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
"This is a landmark achievement. Claudia Calirman deftly explicates the complexities and subtleties of the varied forms of visual expression that reacted to the atrocities of dictatorship in later 20th century Brazil. With its limpid writing and intelligent citing of parallels in other forms of avant-garde art in Europe and North America, her text affords the reader an 'insider's' look into one of the most vibrant and original art scenes of the 1960s and 70s. This volume should appeal to a wide public and will stand as a standard reference for many years." --Edward J. Sullivan, New York University
Claudia Calirman is Assistant Professor of Art History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.