Brazilian Art Research Articles

Cleveland, Kimberly L.Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2013. 173 pp.

<b>Cleveland, Kimberly L.</b><i>Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity</i>. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2013. 173 pp.

Pigment Pur and the Corpo da Côr: Post-Painterly Practice and Transmodernity

This article analyzes a near-contemporaneous incidence of post-painterly practice—the use of raw pigment—utilized by the French neo—avant—garde artist Yves Klein and the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica. The use of raw pigment by both artists was conditioned by a self—conscious relationship to the history of modernist art and the monochrome as a limit and origin of painting. Despite the confluence of such orientations, Klein's pigments purs (pure pigments) and Oiticica's corpo da côr (body of color) resulted in radically divergent orientations toward the industrially produced commodity and hence the readymade. By exploiting inconsistencies characteristic of the commodity in developmentalist Brazil, Oiticica orchestrated a transfer of making from artist to viewer, initiating a newly participatory dimension within modernist color.

Transcending Traditional Group Work: Using the Brazilian Martial Art of Capoeira as a Clinical Therapeutic Group for Culturally Diverse Adolescents

Many culturally diverse populations, such as angry youth, relapse into aggressive behaviors because of poor behavioral self-efficacy and socialization skills. To supplement traditional treatments, there is need for culturally sensitive and effective programs. Martial arts, when integrated with culturally sensitive clinical components, are a viable addendum to therapy. Martial arts represent a paradigm shift from talk therapies to more interactive, socially involving group methods. Combining the movement of martial arts with culturally sensitive therapeutic principles can make a significant difference with culturally diverse populations. Capoeira (a Brazilian martial art) is a potential multicultural group approach for behavioral change.

A emergência de novas latitudes no mundo das artes: o projeto Latitude e a inserção da arte brasileira no mercado global

Based on the increasing participation of Brazilian contemporary art in the international market, this article aims to understand the role of the Latitude project as a major tool of internationalization of this production. Acting under the setting of public-private partnership, the Latitude project presents itself as a business platform (for galleries) and also as a visibility one (for artists) that range from assistance in exportation bureaucratic issues to organizingvisits of institution directors and international collectors to Brazilian museums, institutions, fairs and galleries. However, this type of partnership leads us to question the current public policies for the development of the sector, its sphere of action, results and actual beneficiaries. Keywords: Art market, internationalization, Latitude project

Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949–1979

To anyone unfamiliar with the interventions made by avant-garde artists into the art world and occasionally wider society during the middle of the 20th century, this volume delivers a very readable account. The artists, the objects they made and the discussions they generated are selected here in relation to the particular practices and contexts emergent in Brazil following the chaos of World War II (during which the country remained neutral). In keeping with a historiographical approach—rather than an art historical account—the author introduces an initial group of Brazilian artists attracted to ideas concerned with the nature of the object in art and the abstraction of space and time in two and three dimensions.

Careers Boundaries in the Arts in Brazil: An Exploratory Study

Over the last years the scholarly literature on careers has been enriched by the proposal of new career models which present a rhetoric that asks for the end of career boundaries: individual, hierarchical, organizational and geographical. However, in the real world, many constrains continue to exist. This paper tries to contribute to the understanding of the new boundaries of the 21st century careers. To do so we look at the case of careers in the arts. We review existing literature on careers, present a historical, contextual perspective of artistic careers, and conduct field work in the city of São Paulo based on in-depth interviews with 18 Brazilian artists from nine different occupations in the field of arts, whose data were subjected to qualitative content analysis. Our results show that career boundaries exist even in a sector we could consider as historically boundaryless . We identify and discuss four boundaries of the artistic career, seeking to reflect on the importance of considering the relationship of the individual and the context in which he/she operates in order to understand careers today.

Lusophone Studies: A Cumulative Area Bibliography, 2013–15

Portuguese Studies vol. 31 no. 2 (2015), 250–64© Modern Humanities Research Association 2015 Lusophone Studies: A Cumulative Area Bibliography, 2013–15 Emilce Rees Visiting Research Associate at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies (SPLAS) at King’s College, London The following pages list publications and theses relating to the Portuguesespeaking world which were published from 2013 to early 2015 in English. Some items previously omitted have been included here. Relevant online academic search resources have been used, namely the Copac® library catalogue, WorldCat® and the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database and for consultation, the British Library EThOS, for ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education. The Copac® library catalogue contains the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. ABIL (Association of Portuguese and Irish Lusitanists) list members are also thanked for their contribution. WorldCat® is a global catalogue with more than 1.4 billion items available in libraries from around the world. I. Publications 1.1 Anthropology and Folklore 1.2 Arts, Architecture and Music 1.3 Bibliographies, Directories and Guides 1.4 Environment 1.5 History, Politics and Social Science 1.6 Language 1.7 Literature 1.8 Religion II. Theses 2.1 African topics 2.2 Asian Topics 2.3 Brazilian Topics 2.4 Portuguese Topics Lusophone Studies 251 I. Publications 1.1 Anthropology and Folklore BATARDA FERNANDES, António Pedro (2014), Natural Processes in the Degradation of Open-Air Rock-Art Sites: An Urgency Intervention Scale to Inform Conservation: The Case of the Côa Valley World Heritage Site, Portugal (Oxford: Archaeopress) xv, 311 pages. FORTE, Maximilian Christian (2013), Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) xii, 254 pages. KOPENAWA, Davi Albert Bruce (2013), The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) xvi, 622 pages. SHWALB, David W., Barbara J. SHWALB & Michael E. LAMB (eds) (2013), Fathers in Cultural Context (New York: Routledge) xxii, 419 pages. 1.2 Arts, Architecture and Music ADZ, King (2013), The Stuff You Can’t Bottle: Advertising for the Global Youth Market (London: Thames & Hudson) 342 pages. ALONSO, Natalia (2013), Dance and Modernist Architecture: The Case of Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeía (London: London Metropolitan University) 120 pages BIRKENSTEIN, Jeff, Anna FROULA & Karen RANDELL (2013), The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It’s a Mad World (New York: Columbia University Press ) 256 pages. BRANDELLERO, Sara (ed) (2013), Brazilian Road Movie Journeys of (Self) Discovery (Cardiff: University of Wales Press) 288 pages. BURNETT, Mark Thornton (2013), Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press) xv, 272 pages. CAMPBELL, Patricia Shehan & Trevor WIGGINS (eds) (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures (New York: Oxford University Press) xvii, 636 pages. CLEVELAND, Kimberly (2013), Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida) xii, 173 pages, [24] pages of plates. COUTINHO, Bárbara (2014), MUDE: Design and Fashion Museum, Francisco Capelo Collection, Lisbon (London: Scala Publications) 128 pages. FOSTER, David William (2013), Latin American Documentary Filmmaking: Major Works (Tucson: University of Arizona Press) xiv, 215 pages. GRAY, John (2014), Afro-Brazilian Music: A Bibliographic Guide (Nyack, New York: African Diaspora Press) xiv, 585 pages. HERTZMAN, Marc A. (2013), Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press) xvii, 364 pages, [6] pages of plates. MASCARENHAS CASSIANO NEVES, Pedro & Ana Luísa DA CUNHA DE ALVIM (2014), Houses and Palaces in Lisbon: Coats of Arms (Lisbon: Scribe) 287 pages. PACE, Richard & Brian P. HINOTE (2013), Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press) 224 pages. Lusophone Studies 252 PARÉS, Luis Nicolau (2013), The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press) 424 pages. RÊGO, Cacilda & Marcus BRASILEIRO (eds) (2014), Migration in Lusophone Cinema (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan) viii, 232 pages. REGO, Paula & Adam FOULDS (writer of added commentary) (2014), Paula Rego: The Last King of Portugal and Other Stories (London: Marlborough Fine Art) 36 pages. RENSHAW, Amanda (2013), Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of...

Subversive Cannibals

In this article, Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento discusses Brazilian contemporary theater with a focus on the works of playwrights Dib Carneiro Neto, Newton Moreno, Jô Bilac, and Diogo Liberano. She provides an introduction to the country's current cultural and political climate, the influence of Oswald de Andrade's “Cannibalist Manifesto” on contemporary Brazilian artists, and how the English-speaking world's relative ignorance of this country positions it as the “other Latin America.”

Intellectuals, literature and the press in the post-coup period

Culture and the arts in Brazil were impacted directly by the military coup from 1964 onwards. In spite of repression and censorship, the activity of intellectuals and artists in the pre-1964 period was not interrupted nor became stagnant, but gained even greater force due to the presence of control and restrictions by the institutions of repression over against the freedom of creation and thought. As in many sectors of cultural production, literature vigorously combated the arbitrariness of the regime and implemented “projects of resistance” on the basis of key elements of representation. This occurred, for instance, through the writing and circulation of works such as Pessach: a travessia, by journalist Carlos Heitor Cony, and Quarup, by journalist Antonio Callado. The two novels enabled a broad debate on the narrative form and the scope of involvement in the literature of the 1960s, such as the confrontation between Paulo Francis and Ferreira Gullar in the pages of Revista Civilização Brasileira, which is the focus of this article.Keywords: literature, press, intellectuals, military dictatorship, involvement, left.

“Marat-Sebastião: pinturas do lixo” e “A morte de Marat”: o acontecimento do retorno de um enunciado

On the basis of Discourse Analysis, this article aims at reading and discussing the work of art “Marat Sebastiao: Pictures of Garbage”, created by the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. This paper argues on the means by which this work of art, considered as a commentary, builds meaning upon the return of the original work in its current sociohistorical context. The results show that the relation between the original work and its commentary builds different meanings which may be associated with death, garbage, art and life renewal. Keywords: discoursive event, commentary, “Marat-Sebastiao: pictures of garbage”, “The death of Marat”.

Appropriating the abject: an anthropophagic approach to organizational diversity

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the monstrous in organizational diversity by introducing the concept of cultural anthropophagy to the diversity literature. Using Kristeva's notion of abjection to better understand cultural anthropophagy, the paper argues that cultural anthropophages cross boundaries, and build identity through desire for and aggression toward valued others.Design/methodology/approach– The paper uses a conceptual discussion of abjection, along with a historical survey of anthropophagic approaches from Brazilian art and cultural studies.Findings– Anthropophagic approaches highlight unique features of organizational identity, framing identity formation as a fluid process of expulsion and re-integration of the other. While abjection approaches focus on the exclusion of material aspects of the self and the formation of self-other boundaries, anthropophagy focusses on the re-integration of the other into the self, in a symbolic gesture of re-integration, desire, and reverence for the other.Originality/value– The idea of anthropophagy is a recent entrant into the organizational literature, and the close relation between anthropophagy and abjection is illuminated in the current paper. Original insights regarding the search for positive identity, the ambivalence of self and other, and the relation of the particular and the universal, are offered with regards to the diversity literature.

At the egg's edge: Lygia Clark's indiscretions

This essay examines the way the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920–1988) revisits and reconstructs the scene of birth in works that invoke, directly or indirectly, the figure of the egg. It compares Clark's reconstructions in relation to Jacques Lacan's account of birth, the development of the individuated subject and the normative, patriarchal social relations that subject upholds. It argues that while Lacan's account entails the bracketing of the indistinct and sensuous materiality he refers to as the Real, Clark's works reclaim the Real, creating a very different experience of bearing and being born, and of doing it together in and as a sharing of fluids, membranes, openings/passageways, in and as haptic contact. Constituted by this kind of interpenetration and entanglement, the Real becomes a field of discovery within which the contact of indiscrete flesh, of inorganic and organic matter, is the starting point for re-experiencing and remaking sociality and new modes of life.

Comportamento de ondas ultrassônicas no Granito Mauá para a conservação do Monumento às Bandeiras

The Monumento as Bandeiras by Victor Brecheret is constituted of Maua Granite. It is a symbol of the city of Sao Paulo and a masterpiece by one of the most important Brazilian artists. This study aimed to assess the conservation status of this monument by using the non-destructive method of propagation of ultrasonic waves. The assessment was carried out considering the importance of this monument, which represents a significant period of Sao Paulo history, and mainly to contribute to its conservation by using a geological approach. In this study, the values of the P-wave velocities in the monument were compared with the values obtained in the laboratory sample, which was collected in the original quarry of the same stone as the monument. Appropriate methodologies were used in this study to obtain the values of velocities in laboratory and in situ. Three types of transmission were used: direct, semi-direct and indirect, with three different transducer pairs: 54 and 150 kHz and and exponentials of 54 kHz. Only the 54 kHz and 150 kHz transducers were compatible to the study of the monument using direct and indirect transmissions. The result of these evaluations indicates that the Monumento as Bandeiras is still in good conservation condition, based in the P-wave velocities: ca. 4.6 - 5.3 km/s, obtained directly in the monument, varying according to the type of transmission applied, and 5.2 - 5.6 km/s in the laboratory tests. These values are in accordance with non-altered granites.

Intelectuais, literatura e imprensa no pós-golpe

Culture and the arts in Brazil were impacted directly by the military coup from 1964 onwards. In spite of repression and censorship, the activity of intellectuals and artists in the pre-1964 period was not interrupted nor became stagnant, but gained even greater force due to the presence of control and restrictions by the institutions of repression over against the freedom of creation and thought. As in many sectors of cultural production, literature played a vigorously combative role against the arbitrariness of the regime and implemented “projects of resistance” on the basis of key elements of representation. This occurred, for instance, through the writing and circulation of works such as Pessach: a travessia, by journalist Carlos Heitor Cony, and Quarup, by journalist Antonio Callado. The two novels enabled a broad debate on the narrative form and the scope of involvement in the literature of the 1960s, such as the confrontation between Paulo Francis and Ferreira Gullar in the pages of Revista Civilização Brasileira, which is the focus of this article.Keywords: literature, press, intellectuals, military dictatorship, involvement, left.

Arte e Design: indústrias criativas e sustentabilidade

The boundaries between art and design are currently more and more tenuous. We often see art migrating to shops and objects of design to museums. However, art and design differ with respect to their relationship with the public. Art itself is not from the order of consumption, but from the aesthetic experience tout court . Still, the cultural industry, and, in its path, the creative industry, have been approaching the logic of consumption of the aesthetic experience of art. On the one hand, there is a desacralization of art, on the other hand, the consumption culture preempts the aesthetics and the practices of art. Being sustainability one of the contemporary paradigms that preaches duration as a value, this article, in an exploratory way and by the methodology of strategic design, seeks to question, in the current Brazilian art, the principle of desacralization and, in the design, the practices that approach it to art. Keywords: art, design, cultural industry, creative industry.

Geography, Art Theory, and New Perspectives for an Inclusive Art History

For a long time now, many have considered art history to be in a state of crisis. In the last decade, numerous publications have attempted to reimagine the discipline, addressing its future or even...

Trajetória do canto cênico de Elis Regina

Estudo sobre o estilo de performance da cantora Elis Regina ao longo de sua carreira, com foco na integração entre as expressões musical e cênica. Discute as principais influências e desenvolvimentos no seu gestual a partir de depoimentos de diversos artistas, críticos e produtores musicais. Analisa sua concepção cênica em relação ao conteúdo da letra e da música em trechos de canções em diversas gravações de vídeo da artista.

Esquerdas, política e cultura no Brasil (1950-1970) um balanço historiográfico

This article offers a critical assessment of the trajectory of committed left art in Brazil between end of the 1950's and end of the 1970's, based on established bibliographic debates and more recent historiographical revisions. The focus is on the trajectory of the national-popular culture and the aesthetic propositions developed by artists linked to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), which suffered a major criticism from the late 1960's by other left currents. From this central perspective, we analyze tensions and contradictions within the established historiography on Brazilian left culture, caused by its excessive tribute to the memory produced by historical protagonists involved in cultural struggles in the 1960's and 1970's.

Constructing an avant-garde: art in Brazil, 1949-1979

Brazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel a similar displacement when viewing Brazilian avant-garde art; the unexpected familiarity of the works serves to make them unfamiliar. In Constructing an Avant-Garde, Sergio Martins seizes on this uncanny obliqueness and uses it as the basis for a reconfigured account of the history of Brazil's avant-garde. His discussion covers not only widely renowned artists and groups -- including Helio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Cildo Meireles, and neoconcretism -- but also important artists and critics who are less well known outside Brazil, including Mario Pedrosa, Ferreira Gullar, Amilcar de Castro, Luis Sacilotto, Antonio Dias, and Rubens Gerchman. Martins argues that artists of Brazil's postwar avant-garde updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. He describes defining episodes in Brazil's postwar avant-garde, discussing crucial critical texts, including Gullar's Theory of the Non-Object, a phenomenological account of neoconcrete artworks; Oiticica, constructivity, and Mondrian; portraiture, self-portraiture, and identity; the nonvisual turn and missed encounters with conceptualism; and monochrome, manifestos, and engagement. The Brazilian avant-garde's hijacking of modernism, Martins shows, gained further complexity as artists began to face their international minimalist and conceptualist contemporaries in the 1960s and 1970s. Reconfiguring not only art history but their own history, Brazilian avant-gardists were able to face contemporary challenges from a unique -- and oblique -- standpoint.

Walter Zanini and Roberto Pontual: Two Critical Commitments in Brazil

To the collections of writings by Brazilian art critics currently available in the market place (Mario Pedrosa, Frederico Morais, Aracy Amaral, Ronaldo Brito, Paulo Sergio Duarte) have recently been added the critical writings of Walter Zanini (1925-2013 ; his thesis was supervised by Andre Chastel) and the critical oeuvre of Roberto Pontual (1939-1992). The first collection, with short introductory chapters written by Cristina Freire, who is working today as an exhibition curator in the same...