Sculpting for Ministry: Art and Power in the New State

• Grant number: 12/25312-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni
• Grantee: Marina Mazze Cerchiaro
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to investigate the relationship between artists and the New State. On the one hand, attempts to understand the aesthetic and political disputes of the period and, secondly, to analyze the degree and nature of the autonomy of modernist artists, particularly sculptors, to the state. The clipping of empirical research are orders of sculptures for the Ministry of Education and Health (MES) between 1937 and 1945. This research will provide new information for understanding the relationship between artistic and political elites, as well as increasing knowledge about the modernist sculptors and their field during the decades of 1930 and 1940 in Brazil.

Academic Publications

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

CERCHIARO, Marina Mazze. Sculpting for the Ministry: arts and politics in the New State. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB) São Paulo.