Aracy Amaral and Maria Eugênia Franco: critical studies

• Grant number: 19/07349-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2022
• End date: March 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni
• Grantee: Talita Trizoli
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

It is proposed in this project the study of the critical fortune of two women's art criticisms with a considerable impact on the Brazilian artistic scene, but with different recognition levels by the system: Aracy Amaral, iconic name in Latin American art studies and author of important studies in the historiography of art modern, and strong figure in the first curatorial movements of the circuit, and Maria Eugênia Franco, agent still little valued by our historiography, but with an important role in the processes of consolidation of the precepts of avant-garde art in Brazil, and in the sedimentation of structures of the environment of the arts, in concomitance with projects appreciates today as curatorial actions. The general hypothesis of the project is that the different social capitals of Aracy and Maria Eugênia were decisive in its reception, despite the massive contributions of both to the area. (AU)