“You can’t imagine Brazilian culture without Africa,”
-Prof. Roberto Conduru, Art Historian (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro).
Watch his interview here: https://youtu.be/zqCYT5BTbl0
Roberto Conduru’s research, which he shares in this important keynote address as a part of the 2015 Global Brazil Conference at Duke University’s Nasher Museum, demonstrates how potent the African influence is on Brazil’s art world between the 1960’s & 70’s.
Conduru has an interdisciplinary approach to art history, building on visual anthropology, architecture, and religion in order to examine how modernity was built in Brazil. His recent book, Pérolas Negras- Primeiros Fios (2013), examines Afro-Brazilian artistic and cultural connections.
The GLOBAL BRAZIL Lab at FHI at Duke aims to generate new conversations between the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences through research focused on Brazilian arts, social movements, and the natural environment. This talk was part of a three-day conference, which began on March 26th, 2015. The lab continues its commitment to shine an academic spotlight on the rising global profile of Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest country.
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