Yuliya Komska is a cultural historian and associate professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. She is writing a triple biography of Margret Rey, H. A. Rey, and their brainchild, Curious George.
Yuliya Komska
Articles by Yuliya Komska:
Toothless in Brazil
in Issue 98 | Teeth (Jul 2021)Despite the crash of 1929, the collapse of Brazilian coffee prices, and the dizzying succession of coups and revolutions that would open the door to Getúlio Vargas’s dictatorship, consumer capitalism marched on undaunted in Brazil of the 1930s, as European and North American companies doubled down on their efforts to exploit the country’s natural resources and to conquer its markets in the same breath. The artists and literati who touted pharmaceuticals, sweets, and cosmetics across Brazil during this period de facto lent their talents to the consumer-capitalist extension of settler colonialism.