Coming and Going: Movement of Folk Art from Brazil’s Backlands

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Notes

1 Marion E. Jackson, “A World of Our Own—Popular Art of Brail's Northeast” in Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art of the Northeast of Brazil, ed. Marion Jackson and Barbara Cervenka (Detroit: Con/Vida- Popular Arts of the Americas, 2013), 24.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid, 17-18; Beth Lima, Em nome do autor: Artistas artesãos do Brasil (São Paulo: Proposta Editorial, 2008), 135.

4 Lélia Coelho Frota, Mestre Vitalino (São Paulo: Editoração Publicações e Comunicações, 1988), 137.

5 Anna Paola Baptista, Peças de novidade: O universo de Mestre Vitalino (Rio de Janeiro: Museus Castro Maya, 2009), 60-61.

6 Lima, Em nome, 194.

7 Ibid.

8 Frota, Mestre Vitalino, 138.

9 Peter Singelmann, “Political Structure and Social Banditry in Northeast Brazil,” Journal of Latin American Studies 7:1 (1975): 77-78.

10 Frederico Pernambucano de Mello, “The Aesthetics of the Cangaço as an Expression of Brazilian Libertarianism” in Heroes and Artists: Popular Art and the Brazilian Imagination, ed. Tania Costa Tribe (Cambridge, UK: BrasilConnects and the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2001), 54-71.

11 Billy Jaynes Chandler, The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1978), 33.

12 Nicholas Gabriel Arons, Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004); Tania Costa Tribe, “Popular Culture and the Arts of Twentieth-Century Brazil” in Heroes and Artists: Popular Art and the Brazilian Imagination, ed. Tania Costa Tribe (Cambridge, UK: BrasilConnects and the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2001), 11-12.

13 Singelmann, "Political Structure," 79; Frota, Mestre Vitalino, 138.

14 Elise Jasmin, Cangaceiros (São Paulo: Terceiro Nome, 2006).

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Kimberly L. Cleveland

Kimberly Cleveland is Associate Professor of Art History at Georgia State University. She is the author of Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity (2013) and explores questions of race, ethnicity, and identity in relation to artistic production in her scholarship.