ARTE BRASILEIRA: ARTE INDÍGENA: DO PRÉ-COLONIAL A CONTEMPORANEIDADE.; Coleção Arte brasileira 1

São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 2006. b/w and color plates, ports., facs., illus., glos., ind., bibl., color pict. wrps. Series on Brazilian art history with the main topics related to Brazilian plastic arts and architecture in a clear and simple presentation. The volumes are divided in two parts: an introductory presentation of the main topic and the analytical study of related artworks and architecture found in museums and other places of public access. This volume reviews the rock art and other Pre-Historic art manifestations along with the colonial European perception of the country through graphic ethic representations of the Indians and their traditions and exhibitions of Pre-Historic objects including the colorful feather made cloth Tupinambá. With emphasis in the Northeastern and Central-Western regions of Brazil, where human presence was stronger.