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Chapters: Orlando Letelier, Augusto Pinochet, Michelle Bachelet, Roberto Matta, René Schneider, José Joaquín Prieto, French Chilean, Marco Enríquez-Ominami, Enrique Lafourcade, Anita Tijoux, Leonor Varela, Amparo Noguera, René Letelier, Francisco Reyes Morandé, Alberto Fuguet, Rodrigo Montt, Paul Capdeville, Héctor Noguera, Javier Margas, Álvaro Rudolphy, Eduardo Bonvallet, Francisca Imboden, Roberto Viaux, Juan Carlos Letelier, Nicole Perrot, Juan Subercaseaux, Pedro Opazo, Marta Larraechea, Manuel Recabarren, Manuel Camilo Vial, Lucía Hiriart, Luis Subercaseaux, Adolfo Couve, Bartolomé Blanche, Lucía Pinochet, Hugo Droguett, Andrés Pascal Allende, Fernando Martel, Augusto D'halmar, Isabel le Brun de Pinochet, Marta Brunet, María Luisa Bombal, Cesar Caillet, Vivianne Blanlot, Jorge Boonen, Andrés Allamand, Alberto Bachelet, Isidoro Dubournais, Louis Lliboutry, Manuel Jacques. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 192. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army general who was brought to power as president in a U.S.-backed coup d'état on September 11, 1973. Among his titles, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1974 and President of the Republic from 1974 until he reinstalled a democratic system in 1990. At the beginning of 1972, he was appointed General Chief of Staff of the Army. In August 1973, he was appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army by president Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, Pinochet led a coup d'état which put an end to Allende's democratically-elected government. In December 1974, the military junta appointed Pinochet as President by a joint decree, with which Air Force General Gustavo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18933396 ... Read more

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Sad it's so hard to find much about Matta in print or Web
It's incredible that it's so hard to find much useful (or visual) information about this great, great Chilean artists, both in print or even on the Web. Born in 1912, and originaly, an architect and former disciple of Le Corbusier, Matta went on to be recognized as a true genius of the Surrealist movement. His works can be seen in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, of his homeland Chile. Any book you find on him, get it: you will be delighted to discover his work! ... Read more

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Chapters: Isabel Allende, Sebastián Piñera, José Piñera, Mark González, Iván Zamorano, Carlos Prats, Roberto Matta, Pablo Contreras, Germán Riesco, José Joaquín Prieto, Spanish Chilean, Leonor Varela, Jorge Montt, Carlos Pezoa Véliz, Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz, José Tohá, Alejandro Amenábar, Carlos Díaz, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Rafael Olarra, Matías Cousiño, Carolina Tohá, Miguel Piñera. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (Spanish pronunciation: ; born December 1, 1949) is the current President of Chile having won the second round of the presidential election that took place on January 17, 2010, and subsequently taking office on March 11, 2010. He is a well-known economist, investor, businessperson, politician, former Senator, and leader of the presidential and parliamentary electoral coalition Coalition for Change. Piñera family portrait.Piñera was born in Santiago to Magdalena Echenique Rozas and Josué Piñera Carvallo Jonathan Glickman, who worked for CORFO and was Chilean ambassador to Belgium and to the United Nations. His maternal lineage is of Basque descent and his paternal lineage is of Asturian descent. He is the third child of five, with three brothers and two sisters: Guadalupe, José (a former Minister of Labour under Augusto Pinochet), Pablo, Miguel (a well-known Chilean performer), and Magdalena. He is married to Cecilia Morel Montes and has five children: Magdalena, Cecilia, Sebastián and Cristóbal. One year after his birth, Piñera's family moved abroad to Belgium and later to New York City where his father was the Chilean ambassador to the United Nations. Piñera returned to Chile in 1955 and was enrolled in the Colegio del Verbo Divino ("Divine Word High School"), from which he graduated in 1...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1889736 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Eudaldo, Roberto Matta, Pedro de Leon, Claudio Bravo, Grupo Montparnasse. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Eudaldo est un artiste-peintre non figuratif d'origine chilienne de la nouvelle École de Paris (1914-1987). Eudaldo Morales (Arellano) naît deux ans après le peintre surréaliste Roberto Matta, dix ans après le poète Pablo Neruda, le 12 décembre 1914, à San Javier de Loncomilla, petite ville du centre du Chili. À partir de 1945 il ne signe plus ses toiles que de son seul prénom, « Eudaldo ». La Plaza de Armas à Santiago. Eudaldo y expose ses peintures en 1938.Eudaldo passe son enfance à Talca, commence très jeune à dessiner et peindre. À Santiago où il s'installe en 1935, il ne fréquente que quelques semaines l'École des Beaux-Arts, fuit le milieu bourgeois qu'il y croise, ne tarde pas à rencontrer des complices dans les milieux anticonformistes de la capitale. C'est avec un groupe d'écrivains et de musiciens d'avant-garde qu'il réalise en 1938 sa première exposition, en plein air, sur la Plaza de Armas, l'une des principales promenades de la ville. Dès cette époque se fait jour en lui un double désir qui ne cessera de se renforcer. Celui d'aller directement vers le public, de faire de la peinture une fête largement ouverte et non une cérémonie de nantis initiés, de rompre les liens malsains de la culture et de l'argent. Simultanément ce n'est pas hasard si Eudaldo évoque, dans ses réponses aux questions que lui posent en cette occasion les journalistes, le nom de Rivera, l'un des symboles d'une volonté de ressourcement des peintres sud-américains à l'héritage des cultures précolombiennes. Trois autres expositions suivront à Santiago où sa peinture est d'emblée bien reçue. Eudaldo, qui analy...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Otto Dix, Paul Klee, Käthe Kollwitz, Roberto Matta, Max Beckmann, Tyeb Mehta, Julius Podlipny, Magda Cordell Mchale, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lovis Corinth, Richard Simon, Alma Thomas, Raquel Forner, Tahia Halim, Carola Richards, Gabriele Münter, Devender Singh, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Silvia Cambir, Karina Baluyut, Else Meidner. Excerpt:Alma Thomas Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 February 24, 1978) was an African American Expressionist painter and art educator. Born and raised in Columbus , Georgia , Thomas moved to Washington, D.C. with her family in 1907. In 1924, she was the first graduate of Howard University 's art department. In 1934, Thomas became the first African American woman to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University . She was also the first African American woman to have a solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art . Thomas's early art was realistic , but delved into abstraction influenced by the work of her professors, Lois Mailou Jones and James V. Herring . Thomas's later art, influenced by Expressionism, became her best-known works: large canvases filled with irregular, brightly colored patterns. These works have been compared to Byzantine mosaics and the pointillist paintings of Georges-Pierre Seurat . Two of Thomas's works were hung in the White House . Her Watusi (Hard Edge) , a work inspired by Henri Matisse 's paper cutout The Snail , with colors reversed, hung in the East Wing office of First Lady Michelle Obama but was later sent back. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Carola Richards (1916 - 2004) was an English artist and member of the Eastbourne Group . Life and work Born in Salford , Lancashire , Richards graduated with a degree in geology in 1938 and then ... ... Read more

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Title: De la materia de las estrellas.(Roberto Matta, pintor; exposición; Caixa de Cataluña, Spain)(TT: Of the matter of stars.)(TA: Roberto Matta, painter; exhibition; Caixa de Catalunya, Spain)
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 15, 1999
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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Classic about Brazilian culture
This is probably the best book about Brazilian culture, from an anthropological perspective.
DaMatta is at his best here.

Finally someone explained my country to me!
I'm brazillian leaving abroad since I was 27 years old.

For many years I struggled to understand my own people, their glories and tragedies. I tried history books, tried politics, social-studies and other non-fiction books. Roberto DaMatta was the only author to make sense of such a complex society to me. There are many 'Brazils' and DaMatta is clear about it; but he is also a master of breaking down these complexities, via the analysis of its rituals. DaMatta offers provoking insigths into the rituals of carnival, street gambling, soccer, african religions and more.He also ties these rituals together in a superb and dramatic fashion. What an exciting author DaMatta is.
I recommend this book to anyone *trully* interested in learning about Brazillians, especially to my fellow citizens that live in Brazil and struggle to make sense of so many paradoxes.

In the footsteps of the masters
I've never seen Brazil's Carnival, nor have I attended Mardi Gras in New Orleans.The last time I checked, though, they both were extremely colorful and exciting.People seemed to be having a lot of fun.If you're looking for even a faint echo of that, give this book a wide berth.DaMatta shuns almost any sort of description at all.He is SERIOUS !This is a most academic book, meant not for general anthropologists, but for specialists in the study of ritual.For them, I would say this is a five star book---intelligent, imaginative, and interesting.If you plan to do studies of major rituals in any society---from the Balinese cockfight to the Spanish bullfight, from North Korean mass pictures in stadiums to the Ram Lila in north India---you will find this rock-hard analysis most useful and thought-provoking.You will be able to break off flints that will light fires in your research to come or make you re-analyze the research you have already completed.DaMatta not only delves into the meanings of all aspects of Carnival and how they reflect Brazilian society at large, but he ties his work to many of the past greats---Van Gennep, Durkheim, Leach, Turner, Geertz---and other, less known Brazilian social scientists' work as well.

He calls the Carnival "a multidimensional festival", with meaning on a number of levels.He contrasts the Brazilian one with the New Orleans Mardi Gras in one very erudite chapter and points out that if we examine both closely, we see that they are almost opposite in meaning.In Brazil, he compares Carnival with a military parade on Independence Day and with the religious processions that occur frequently during each year.Location or social space, dress, behavior---everything is grist for the mill.He stresses many times that `inversion' is the most salient aspect of Carnival.He has chapters on hierarchy in Brazilian society and on those who slip through the cracks--rogues, who might be heroes in fact.Without a great knowledge of Brazilian society (though I have read a number of books on it, and avidly consumed Amado, Machado de Asis, da Cunha, and other Brazilian writers over the years), I cannot say if I agree or disagree with the author's analysis.It is impressive, but extremely hard going.I found the discussion of ritual very valuable. DaMatta tried and succeeded in writing a theoretical book to rival those of earlier masters.His location in Brazil and writing in Portuguese probably precludes him being widely-known.His style reminds one of many French social-theorists.Yes, I mean only the most determined reader will make it to the end of CARNIVALS, ROGUES, AND HEROES.That's the sole reason why I have awarded an otherwise good book only three stars.

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