ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 4/30/2024 Danny Lyon at Photobook AustinDATE 4/30/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Roger A. Deakins with James Ellis Deakins and Matthew Heineman on 'Byways'DATE 4/25/2024 Joshua Charow's 'Loft Law' documents the last of NYC's original artist loftsDATE 4/25/2024 Join us at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair 2024!DATE 4/25/2024 The Strand presents Joshua Charow in conversation with Wendy Goodman for the launch of 'Loft Law'DATE 4/24/2024 Bungee Space presents Set Margins’ 6-Book Launch and Get TogetherDATE 4/21/2024 Time & Space Limited presents "Memory as Various: Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'"DATE 4/20/2024 Heads up on 4/20!DATE 4/18/2024 Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive presents Pyramid Pioneers with 'We Started a Nightclub' signingDATE 4/18/2024 A birthright and a legacy in Ivan McClellan's 'Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture'DATE 4/14/2024 Vintage 'Audio Erotica' from Jonny TrunkDATE 4/13/2024 Unnameable Books presents "Reading from Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'"DATE 4/13/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth presents Heather McCalden and Cyrus Dunham launching 'The Observable Universe: An Investigation' | EVENTSCORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/11/2014Now Available from the Cooper-Hewitt’s DesignFile eBook Series: 'Favelization' by Adriana KertzerIn Favelization, Adriana Kertzer sets out to understand the ways in which specific producers of contemporary Brazilian culture capitalized on misappropriations of the favela (informal squatter settlements that grow along the hillsides and lowlands of many Brazilian cities) in order to brand luxury items as "Brazilian." Kertzer analyzes the the works of artists and designers citing instances of engagement with primitivism and stereotype to make their goods more desirable to a non-Brazilian audience. The author further argues that the processes of interpretation, aestheticization, transcendence, and domination are part of the favelization phenomenon. Originally written by Kertzer as a thesis for Parsons The New School for Design's Masters program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design, Favelization locates design as part of a broader constellation of representations that includes a variety of forms, from printed media to film. |