#  Lecture, "Looking at 'Racial Democracy' in MoMA’s Brazil Builds", Patricio del Real 

 



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 **October 8, 2020** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Online via Zoom**  



 

 



 

 The exhibition “Brazil Builds” is credited with launching the international celebration of Brazil’s modern architecture and the culture of *brasilidade.* Staged at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, this groundbreaking show was a collaborative affair that brought together diverse actors and institutions in the United States and Brazil at a critical moment during the Second World War. With “Brazil Builds,” MoMA became a platform where architectural aesthetics met politics and culture. The exhibition built new alliances – between modern architecture and tradition, the United States and the authoritarian government of President Getulio Vargas – in an eloquent celebration of brasilidade and acted as a Trojan Horse of Brazil’s official ideology of Racial Democracy in the United States. I focus on the staging of this exhibition and explore how this multifaceted architecture seduced U.S. audiences with the spirit of brasilidade.

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Meeting ID: 933 4731 5670  
Password: 987507

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