Insights about Arthur Timotheo da Costa paintings

Author(s)

Kleber Antonio de Oliveira Amancio

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2016-03-17

Examining board members

Maria Odila Leite da Silva Dias; Wlamyra Ribeiro de Albuquerque; Renata Bittencourt; Martinho Alves da Costa Junior; Fernanda Mendonça Pitta

• Advisor: Maria Odila Leite da Silva Dias

Abstract

This dissertation has two main objectives: to investigate the life of the Carioca painter Arthur Timotheo da Costa (1882-1922) and simultaneously uncover some points of his work, more specifically the representations produced about Rio, its architecture and subjects. Black, from the lower classes of Rio society, this painter, despite his early death, could rise socially while that produced critical material about a society that wanted forget their slave past, excited about modernity, even if at the expense of the marginalization and persecution of the black population. Arthur Timotheo is a privileged observer to understand this points, since it weighs about the most dramatic issues of his time. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/11872-3 - Work and life of Arthur Timotheo da Costa
• Grantee: Kleber Antonio de Oliveira Amancio
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate