Historiographical Revision of the 19th century Brazilian Art

Authors

  • Sonia Gomes Pereira Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i54p87-106

Keywords:

Historiography and art criticism, artistic styles, 19th-century Brazilian art, Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts).

Abstract

This article discusses the fundamental aspects of the critical revisionof Brazilian art in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, namely:the issue of a better conceptualization of the term academic whenused with reference to artistic styles; the difficulty of understandingBrazilian artistic production outside the sequential schema ofstyles – generally used to represent European art; and the discussionconcerning the role of the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes(Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts) and the Empire’s culturalproject for the construction of a national identity – with specialattention to the relationship between the artistic production andthe social theories of the day.

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Author Biography

  • Sonia Gomes Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
    Professora titular da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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Published

2012-03-01

Issue

No. 54 (2012)

Section

Articles

License

 

  • Todo o conteúdo do periódico, exceto onde está identificado, está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons do tipo atribuição CC-BY.

How to Cite

Pereira, S. G. (2012). Historiographical Revision of the 19th century Brazilian Art. Revista Do Instituto De Estudos Brasileiros, 54, 87-106. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i54p87-106