Engagement and experimentalism in Tina Modotti trajectory in Mexico

• Grant number: 16/12205-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2016
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: Mariana Martins Villaça
• Grantee: Vinicius Lourenço Barbosa
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The object of this research is the history of the Italian photographer and militant of the Mexican Communist Party Tina Modotti in the period when she had been living in Mexico, between 1923 and 1930. His stay in that country contributed significantly to his artistic training as a photographer and for their involvement in social issues and politics. When working with the mexican trajectory Modotti, most researchers divide this period into two phases, according to the aesthetic choices of the photographer: a "first phase" in which the abstract was a common theme, while the "second phase" there was the prevalence of social issues as a theme. Thus, we will seek to put in dialogue the political engagement and artistic experimentalism of Modotti to analyze how happened the transmutation in their photographs during the 1920s.