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Szyszlo o acerca de la confluencia de lo abstracto y lo mítico : exposición en la Galería Latinoamericana de la Casa de las Américas
1968According to the Cuban journalist, there is “a rich tradition of indigenous art” behind the paintings by Fernando de Szyszlo that were exhibited in Havana: a form of popular art whose roots can be traced back to pre-Hispanic culture in the Andean [...]ICAA Record ID: 1292994 -
Por una cultura real
1983This editorial appeared in number 2/3 (1983) of the magazine U-tópicos: Entornoalovisual (Lima). The text refers to the ongoing failures of the Peruvian government’s cultural organizations over the course of two decades, including the “ [...]ICAA Record ID: 1292528 -
[Águila, tigre, Che Guevara, Rosa de los Vientos...]
1984On the back cover of number 4/5 of the magazine U-tópicos: Entornoalovisual (Lima, 1984), a brief anonymous article discusses the iconographic scenes painted on truck mudguards. The writer points out that, despite being ignored “by [...]ICAA Record ID: 1292492 -
¿Entre lo popular y lo moderno? Alternativas pretendidas o reales en la joven plástica peruana
1983In this essay, Gustavo Buntinx analyzes emerging Peruvian art, seeing it as part of a process that began twenty or twenty-five years earlier. He speculates on “what were or claimed to be alternatives in Peruvian high art during Fernando Belaúnde [...]ICAA Record ID: 1143012 -
El taller de historieta popular
1979In this essay, Juan Acevedo outlines the guidelines he has developed and used at his workshops focused on the creation of comic strips as a popular medium of communication, in particular at the Taller de Historieta del Taller de Publicaciones [Comic [...]ICAA Record ID: 1141933 -
El avance de la historieta popular (I)
1979In this text, Juan Acevedo explains the cartoon methodology as a means of popular communication. He summarizes the system he developed in a number of workshops he gave on the topic, workshops that culminated in November 1979 with the Primer Taller [...]ICAA Record ID: 1141902 -
Editorial : Hacia una cultura popular
1973This article acknowledges the accomplishments of the policy of producing public events—such as the Contacta 72 and Inkari festivals—instituted by the self-styled Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas en el Perú (1968–75). It explains [...]ICAA Record ID: 1139308 -
La emergencia de lo popular
1976In this newspaper article Félix Álvarez, the Spanish historian who lived in Peru, discusses the divide between popular and elite culture from the perspective of Marxist social theory. He explains that this dichotomy is not a capitalist invention, [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136207 -
Un vernissage para la artesanía
1976In this text, Mirko Lauer (under the pseudonym “N. O. Sengai”) points out that only artists and intellectuals, not artisans, have participated in the debate around granting the Premio Nacional [award] to López Antay. He argues that that is due [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136124 -
Sobre el premio nacional de arte
1976On the occasion of the decision to grant the 1975 Premio Nacional de Cultura [award] to Andean altarpiece maker Joaquín López Antay (1897–1981), journalist José B. Adolph reviews the categories of “high art” and “folk art.” While Adolph [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136108 -
Inventário do nosso feudalismo cultural
1968This manifesto voices a radical position on Brazil and its reality, and openly opposes the picturesque vision of Brazilian culture that, perhaps unwittingly, furthers underdevelopment. The signers of the document advocate the elimination of cultural [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111421 -
Museus hoje para o amanhã?
1997This is the transcript of a lecture given by Maurício Segall on the subject “Museus hoje para o amanhã” [Museums today for the future]. In his lecture, the museum organizer reviews current trends in the field of museology, characterized by [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111343 -
Caranguejos com cérebro
1994This manifesto is divided into three sections that reflect the swamp zones [“mangues”] encircling Recife (the capital of the state of Pernambuco): (1) Mangue, the concept; (2) Manguetown, the city; (3) Mangue, the scene. (1) The text maintains [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111342 -
Mundialização e cultura
1994This book investigates the sociohistorical context of contemporary cultural production, emphasizing the role exercised by globalization and by “mundialização” (globalism) in this process. The author establishes a distinction between the two [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111331 -
Estéticas espontâneas num centro urbano da Paraíba: o exemplo da casa
1980This text by critic Paulo Sérgio Duarte is a research proposal for the Núcleo de Arte Contemporânea (NAC). The research itself consists of three essays with photographic illustrations that address the following issues: the need to adjust the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111206 -
Nordeste
1967In this text, filmmaker Glauber Rocha describes the conditions surrounding life and culture in northeastern Brazil in the sixties, specifically in the desert-like region known as sertão. Lina Bo Bardi chose the text for the catalogue for an [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111194 -
A contemporaneidade e o consumo
1966This essay by Oswaldo Louzada Filho speculates on the experience of a pedestrian who is converted into an observer by visiting a contemporary art gallery, describing the movement of that individual through the exhibition space, as well as the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111177 -
Por uma fala amazônica sobre a cultura
1985[This text offers] perspective on Amazonian sensibility, through which the author proposes a radical shift by marginalizing the “elitist” focus. According to this vision, the history of the cultural production of that region has been “a tragic [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111175 -
O movimento cultural ganha espaço
1981Based on the events of 1981, this newspaper article comments on the cultural environment in the city of Belém (Estado de Pará), which is located in the Amazonian equatorial region of Brazil. While on the one hand the visual arts and music were not [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111173 -
Amazônia reinventada
1998This text by writer Benedito Nunes is a comparison of two works, both of them urban scenes from his collection: a painting by Emmanuel Nassar and a photograph by Gratuliano Bibas. Drawing on the author’s background in philosophy, the text is a [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111165 -
Arte e videotexto
1983In this groundbreaking essay, Julio Plaza provides the reader with an overview of what was at the time, the very recent “video text” technology featured in a special section of the seventeenth São Paulo Biennial, a section that Plaza curated. He [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111090 -
Iconografia de massa
1968The exhibition Iconografia de Massa, held at the Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) in Rio de Janeiro (1968), was introduced by art critic Mário Barata. Using the theories of Edgar Morin as his starting point, Barata defends the idea that [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111087 -
Nas artes plásticas
1953Through this commentary, critic José Geraldo Vieira introduces the folk figure of the cangaceiro [“farmhand guerilla” in northeastern Brazil, a bandit and a fugitive from the law who is heavily armed] as a theme in the works of writers and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110853 -
Por que Oxalá usa ekodidé
1982This is a story written by the African-Brazilian sculptor Deoscóredes Maximiliano dos Santos, alias Mestre Didi. In it, he recounts a legend from the mystic universe of Candomblé (a fairly widespread Brazilian cult with African roots) about the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110544 -
Dieux d´Afrique
1954In this book, the French photographer and ethnologist Pierre (Fatumbi) Verger documents, in words and pictures, a number of cults and divinities that are worshiped in African countries (Nigeria and Benin) and in the city of Salvador, in the Brazilian [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110539 -
[excertos de] Para nunca esquecer: negras memórias: memórias de negros
2002This text consists of excerpts from the catalogue for the exhibition Para nunca esquecer. Negras memórias/ Memórias de Negros, held at the Museu Histórico Nacional (in Rio de Janeiro in 2001). It includes scores of texts and poems by writers who [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110530 -
Coleção culto afro-Brasileiro: um documento do candomblé na cidade do Salvador
1985This is the catalogue that describes the collection of Afro-Brazilian religious art that is housed at the Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia. The text, written from an anthropological perspective, is by the museologist Raul Lody, who was also the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110527 -
Coleção Arthur Ramos
1987The catalogue for the “Coleção Arthur Ramos” was organized by the anthropologist and museologist Raul Lody, who was with the Universidade Federal do Ceará. The pieces in the collection are made of the following materials: wood, Flanders sheet [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110525 -
Afrikanische Religiosität in Brasilien; Kunst und Afro-Brasilidade = African religiosity in Brazil; Afro-Brazilian art = Religiosidade africana no Brasil; Arte afro-brasilidade
1994The catalogue for Arte e religiosidade afro-brasileira, the exhibition held at the Kunstverein Museum, in Frankfurt in 1994, introduces the work of contemporary artists of African descent or whose work is inspired by African culture. The exhibition [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110519 -
[Nome : Abelardo da Hora - Escultor, além de desenhista...]
1982In his testimony, the artist Abelardo da Hora (1924–2014) mixes autobiography with episodes that refer to the organization of the Sociedade de Arte Moderna (SAM) in Recife and the workshop known as the Atelier Coletivo as well as the Movimento de [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110514 -
Cultura e política, 1964-1969 : algums esquemas
1978In this essay, Roberto Schwarz discusses the growing prevalence of leftist politics in Brazilian cultural circles after the military coup of 1964 (which kept its grip on power for two decades). He confirms that, the right wing military dictatorship [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110509 -
O procedimento cafona
1979This essay analyzes images of Brazil created by song writers who compose in the Tropicália style, expressing aspects of the country’s cultural past from a modern perspective. Like surrealist works—as in the case of the “Jeu du cadavre exquis [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110507 -
Sob o signo do sincretismo
1995Antonio Risério discusses the origins of the artistic avant-garde in Bahia in the 1950s and 1960s. He notes the syncretic nature of this particular form of art that embraces everything from high culture to popular culture to mass communication. He [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110506 -
Leonilson: a implosão da imagem
1983To what extent did artists involved in the transavantgarde deviate from that modern tradition that tirelessly sought to create something new? This is the basic question that Jorge Guinle asks in this article. He sees that the new “school” [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110504 -
O popular como matriz
1985Aracy Amaral explains that since the early twentieth century, fine artists from Latin America in search of their cultural roots have taken an interest in the themes and formal usage of popular expression. The examples she cites include Tarsila do [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110503 -
15 artistas brasileiros: colocando dobradiças na arte contemporânea
1996According to Tadeu Chiarelli, contemporary international art has moved away from personal expression and embraced an industrial aesthetic. This is the result of a serial, modular logic that rejects any attempt to stress the physical and chemical [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110500 -
Seminário III (segundo semestre de 1981)
1983This seminar analyzes research, debates, interviews, and statements collected by the Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas of the Fundação Nacional da Arte (FUNARTE). The main topic addressed is how “the national” and “the popular” have been [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110452 -
Carne seca
1979Set designer Flávio Império explains that his search for balance ensues between chance and unpredictability. In his view, the “dried meat” banners form part of that process. He recounts how he found those stained pieces of fabric (manufacturing [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110446 -
Manifesto ainda que tardio
1976The artist Rubem Valentim discusses the connection between his work and northeastern Brazil’s popular culture that, in his opinion, is a product of the syncretism of the region’s European, American Indian, and African populations. His goal is to [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110438 -
[Amaioria das peças de escultura popular...]
1944This text by architect Luis Saia discusses the collection of popular sculptures he put together during his trip to northern and northeastern Brazil in 1938. The architect presents a thesis on the African origin of the “miracle,” the name used for [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110430 -
O tropicalismo é nosso, viu?
1968This article describes Tropicalism as an enigmatic and ambiguous movement. It emerged from a fusion of a number of cultural expressions and forms in the wake of the rivalry that pitted the Jovem Guarda (who were fans of British Yeah-Yeah-Yeah and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110422 -
Acontece que êle é baiano
1968This article by Décio Bar is an interview with singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso; it includes a biography, as well as reflections on the turn that Brazilian culture took in the 1950s and 1960s. This was the peak of “the extremely optimistic [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110418 -
Ideologia da cultura brasileira : pontos de partida para uma visão histórica
1976This essay sets out to analyze the evolution of Brazilian intellectual thought from the 1930s to the mid-1970s in order to identify the distinguishing traits of the transition from an aristocratic view of culture (the target of Mário de Andrade’s [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110414 -
Anteprojeto do Manifesto do Centro Popular de Cultura, redigido em março de 1962
1962The first draft of a seven-part manifesto, this document declares that the aesthetic principles of the intellectuals and artists tied to the Centro Popular de Cultura (CPC) are based on the social problems facing Brazil, issues connected to material [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110413 -
The Legend of the origin
1943This text is an introduction to the catalogue of the individual exhibition by the Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins at the Valentine Gallery (New York, 1943). Using poetic language, Jorge Zarur outlines certain characteristics (both physical and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110400 -
Cultura posta em questão
1965This article suggests a definition of “popular culture” that acknowledges the existence of two separate groups: one that is removed from the general population (because it is focused on questions to be addressed through art), and another that is [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110364 -
Ainda o Abstracionismo
1949The critic and visual artist Waldemar Cordeiro defends the true language of the arts—the one that, in his opinion, is “real”—in which the visual elements present themselves (to themselves) as lines and colors, making not the slightest [...]ICAA Record ID: 1085351 -
[Letter] 1937 June 9, São Paulo, Brasil [to] Luiz da Câmara Cascudo
1937In this letter, the writer Mário de Andrade critiques the researcher Luiz da Câmara Cascudo’s articles about folklore. He notes, however, the latter’s rigorous, scientific approach to the subject. The letter mentions (though not explicitly) [...]ICAA Record ID: 1084833 -
O trópico entrópico de Tropicália
1968In this text, Mário Chamie distinguishes the Tropicalism of sociologist Gilberto Freyre from the Tropicália of singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso using the different postures of their native states, Pernambuco and Bahia respectively, in relation to [...]ICAA Record ID: 1075019 -
A querela do Brasil
1976The introduction to this essay rejects the possibility of defining Brazilian art by clearly describing the parameters of such a process which, usually, refers to cultural policies based on folkloric and anecdotal visions of national reality. [...]ICAA Record ID: 1074928
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