Geopolitical strategies in the visual arts: the actions of the British Council in Brazil (1950s/1970s)

• Grant number: 24/05725-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: December 16, 2024
• End date: March 12, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
• Principal Investigator: Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto
• Grantee: Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto
• Host Investigator: Michael Asbury
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of the Arts London (UAL), England
• Associated research grant: 22/12333-3 - Institutional geopolitics: art in dispute in international circulating exhibitions in Brazil (1948-1978), AP.TEM

Abstract

This request for a Research Grant Abroad (BPE) is directly related to the Thematic Project Institutional Geopolitics: art in dispute in international circulating exhibitions in Brazil (1948-1978), which aims to map and analyze the international visual arts exhibitions that circulated through Brazil and other countries in South America between the years indicated. The Thematic Project brings together researchers from different universities in Brazil and abroad and seeks understand the connections between Brazilian institutions and foreign museums and official agencies and the formation of continental networks that were established as a result of these events. The research Geopolitical strategies in the visual arts: the actions of the British Council in Brazil (1950s/1970s), in turn, will examine the role of the United Kingdom in the Cold War chessboard in South America through the analyses of the collective and individual art exhibitions that were organized by the British Council and traveled to Brazil. Access to the primary sources found in archives in England will make it possible to validate, refute, or reformulate our hypotheses about these shows.