Jules Martin and the lithographic culture: production and circulation of knowledge Paris/Marseille/São Paulo, 1850-1900

• Grant number: 14/11349-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: October 01, 2014
• End date: January 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Iara Lis Franco Schiavinatto
• Grantee: Mateus Pavan de Moura Leite
• Supervisor: Mônica Raisa Schpun
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/21903-9 - São Paulo lithographed: Jules Martin and the city's visual culture, BP.MS

Abstract

The ongoing research works with the set of images produced by the French lithographer Jules Martin in São Paulo in the late nineteenth century. Founder of the Viaduto do Chá, he founded in 1870 one of the first lithographic workshops of the province. The research is currently exploring the sparsely archived materials and organizes an illustrated catalog with the objective of nuance the production and circulation of their works under the hypothesis that Martin was a leading producer of images of a society marked by urban changes. Through this body of drawings, the research examines the ways in which the city was represented and seeks to show how the author dealt with the modernization of the province. To do so, it's necessary to better define the social place of the lithographer in that context and discuss how their images acted in relation with the ways of seeing the city in that historical moment. In this sense, the research in France aims to understand his training as a lithographer, inscribing him within a French tradition of drawing and applied arts studies, as well as to realize how the modes of actions of the lithographer and theirs images are part of a global context in which France played a fundamental role, by its ability to produce visual motifs and the development of the technique in the country. The formation of Martin at the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille and its professional trajectory before he comes to Brazil will be investigated, as well as the research will look for his own pictures and for his dialogues with France when established in Sao Paulo. It explores, in this sense, the French lithographic collection looking for other graphic publications produced with close subjects with those of Martin, aiming to compare their visual elements and the treatments given to the represented topics. (AU)