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The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil) |
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Paintings
Culture: Rehabilitation of traditions and country culture
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Photo by Malcolm McNee, 2001. Reproduced by permission. |
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The houses of black plastic, often symbolic of the hardships endured by the landless, here occupy a beautiful, peaceful setting, thus becoming simultaneously a symbol of hope. Unsigned painting, Agrarian Reform Store, São Paulo, state of São Paulo. |
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Edited by Malcolm McNee. Translation © Else R P Vieira.
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November 2002 |
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HOUSESOF391
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Painting and Sculpture
Individual artists portray the dignity and hopes of the Landless, helping
to re-signify the term from a negative -- those without the means of production
and social reproduction -- into a positive. Paintings and sculptures also
draw upon and further invest with meaning symbols of the collective history
and aspirations of the MST: tools, the fence, the movement's flag; the
land, both as barren and divided and as lush and accommodating human habitation.
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