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Although the traditional definitions of art include in some way references to beauty, balance and aesthetics, postmodernism introduces changes in this maxim and raises an approach to art devoid of the concepts inherited from the past to reinforce its expressive value instead of the search for beauty.

Os proponemos un recorrido por algunos edificios y monumentos sorprendentes en un momento en que el cemento era el material de construcción por excelencia. En las décadas de los 60 y los 70, muchos proyectos arquitectónicos de vanguardia optaron por una estética rotunda y contundente, en muchas ocasiones con reminiscencias a la sobriedad soviética, que la vieja Europa canalizó en edificios públicos y monumentos de gran envergadura.We suggest a tour of some amazing buildings and monuments at a time when cement was the building material par excellence. In the 60s and 70s, many avant-garde architectural projects opted for a resounding and forceful aesthetic, often with reminiscences of Soviet sobriety, which old Europe channelled into public buildings and monuments of great importance.

The catastrophe for the loss of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro by a devastating fire last Sunday reopens the debate on the investment of resources in the maintenance of these institutions. This museum had 200 years of history, housed the largest collection of natural history and anthropology in South America and was the fifth gallery in the world for its funds, with a collection that exceeded 20 million pieces.