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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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Emerging culture by media type -> Paintings 9 resources (Edited by Malcolm McNee. Translation © Else R P Vieira.)

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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 EspĂ­rito 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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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

See also: The Plastic Arts in the MST: Beauty as a Human Right

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