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Culture: Rehabilitation of traditions and country culture

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Photo by Malcolm McNee, 2001. Reproduced by permission.

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Peasant tools, powerful icons of the MST, defiantly foregrounding the Brazilian Congress. Painting by De Afonso, MST-Brasília Offices, Brasília, D.F.
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Paintings : Edited by Malcolm McNee. Translation © Else R P Vieira.

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November 2002

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PEASANTT516

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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See also: The Plastic Arts in the MST: Beauty as a Human Right

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