{"id":43392,"date":"2015-10-22T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43392"},"modified":"2017-03-19T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T15:59:57","slug":"brazil-through-french-eyes-a-nineteenth-century-artist-in-the-tropics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43392","title":{"rendered":"Brazil through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of New Mexico Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2015
\n264 pages
\n59 halftones
\n6 x 9 in.
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-8263-3745-0<\/p>\n

Ana Lucia Araujo<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History
\nHoward University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 1858 Fran\u00e7ois-Auguste Biard<\/a>, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil<\/a> to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard\u2019s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his \u201ctropical romanticism\u201d: a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.<\/p>\n

Biard was not only one of the first European artists to encounter and depict native Brazilians, but also one of the first travelers to photograph the rain forest and its inhabitants. His 1862 travelogue<\/a> Deux ann\u00e9es en Br\u00e9sil<\/em> includes 180 woodcuts that reveal Brazil\u2019s reliance on slave labor as well as describe the landscape, flora, and fauna, with lively narratives of his adventures and misadventures in the rain forest. Thoroughly researched, Araujo places Biard\u2019s work in the context of the European travel writing of the time and examines how representations of Brazil through French travelogues contributed and reinforced cultural stereotypes and ideas about race and race relations in Brazil. She further summarizes that similar representations continue and influence perspectives today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1858 Fran\u00e7ois-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard\u2019s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his \u201ctropical romanticism\u201d: a vision of the country with an emphasis on the exotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,83,21,28,459,8,17,6940],"tags":[20309,96,21518,6515],"class_list":["post-43392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","tag-ana-lucia-araujo","tag-france","tag-francois-auguste-biard","tag-university-of-new-mexico-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52639,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43392\/revisions\/52639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}