{"title":"Antonio Dias","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"politica-ele-nao-acha-mais-graca-no-publico-das-proprias-gracas","title":"Política: Ele Não Acha Mais Graça no Público das Próprias Graças","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a title loosely translated as “Politics: He No Longer Finds Amusement in the Audience for His Own Jokes”, this performative artist’s book distils key aspects of Antonio Dias’s early artistic trajectory: a strong inclination towards the manipulation of media language, characteristic of the Pop Art, and a clear affinity with conceptualism, which emerged in his practice in 1968. Published by the Centro de Arte Contemporânea of the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, the book combines photography, mass-media references, humour, and political critique to interrogate capitalism, censorship, social identity, and the relationship between art and its institutions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the central figures in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolítica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Richard Nixon, whose image appears not only in critical newspaper articles but also alongside multiple references to the Watergate affair involving James Walter McCord Jr., a former CIA officer and head of security for Nixon’s re-election campaign. McCord was arrested following the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on 17 June 1972. Drawing on Pop Art and conceptualism, Dias appropriated, transformed, and recontextualised images from the printed media, using them as performative props to illustrate the relationship between dominant political and cultural narratives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his contribution “Antonio Dias: Política e instituição nos anos de 1970” (Encontro Nacional da ANPAP, 2013), Emerson Dionisio Gomes de Oliveira situates these initiatives within the broader context of Brazil’s military dictatorship and the cultural policies of the 1970s, highlighting the complex relationship between institutional support for the arts and political resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55316416725331,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4641.png?v=1791700310"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/antonio-dias.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}