The artistic mission of the first MASP: a study of Pietro Maria Bardi's concept for the MASP in it's first twenty years

• Grant number: 11/04024-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal Investigator: Nelson Alfredo Aguilar
• Grantee: Luna Villas-Bôas Lobão
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposes to study the history of the Museum of Art of São Paulo with an attempt to delineate the artistic mission of the museum's first seat, at the 7 de Abril street, as series of activities, exhibitions and artistic and cultural actions, which was forming a cultural center, a new museum. Throughout the analises of Pietro Maria Bardi's discource, taking as sources magazines edited by him and in which he participated, such as Quadrante, Habitat, and specially the Mirante das Artes, this research work seeks to understand Bardi's museologic conception, his theoretical grounds, MASP's inovative caracter at this inicial phase, the main consisting pillars, as well as the idea of art education present in the Instituto de Arte Contemporânea.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LOBÃO, Luna Villas-Bôas. The artistic mission of MASP in its first years: a study on the conception of museum of Pietro Maria Bardi to the first years of MASP. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.