Sculpting for the Ministry: arts and politics in the New State

Author(s)

Marina Mazze Cerchiaro

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB)
• Defense date: 2016-03-15

Examining board members

Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni; Annateresa Fabris; Silvana Barbosa Rubino

• Advisor: Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni

Abstract

During the administration of Gustavo Capanema, arose the headquarters of the Ministry of Education and Health (MES). Aiming to assign the construction of guidance \"modern\" national character, it was commissioned various works of art, including a collection of sculptures, produced between 1937 and 1941, by Celso Antônio de Menezes, Adriana Janacópulos and Bruno Giorgi. By analyzing these sculptures, this work investigates the attempts to figure the ideal of the \"new man\" undertaken by politicians, intellectuals and artists connected to the Ministry. We seek to understand what that works, as sources, might reveal about the discourses about race, gender and nation in the period. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/25312-2 - Sculpting for Ministry: Art and Power in the New State
• Grantee: Marina Mazze Cerchiaro
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master