%0 Journal Article
%T Damascus in Dahlem art and nature in burle Marx' tropical landscape design
%A Duarte
%A Luiz Fernando Dias
%J Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
%D 2011
%I Associa??o Brasileira de Antropologia
%R 10.1590/S1809-43412011000100021
%X one of the main features of burle marx¡¯s biography is the idea that he discovered the aesthetic qualities of tropical flora that came to characterize his famous new approach to landscape design during a juvenile visit to berlin-dahlem botanical gardens, in the 1920s. having been born [1909] in s£¿o paulo, he is supposed not to have had previous contact with tropical spontaneous richness, thanks to the europeanized taste that prevailed there. as any young member of the local elites with a disposition towards an artistic career, his family trip to europe was an essential condition for close contact with the avant-garde tendencies of early 20th century. ever since the 19th century, that pattern of contact of brazilian prospective artists with ¡®civilization¡¯ had entailed the emergence of different trends of ¡®nativist¡¯ renderings of metropolitan taste. in such a context, the peculiar aspect of rbm¡¯s european d¨¦but was the ¡®discovery¡¯ of tropical nature and not only that of the formal, ¡®universal¡¯ language of high culture. the discussion of what is involved in this game of mirrors is the aim of this paper.
%K nation
%K art
%K landscape
%K nature
%K civilization.
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