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| Author(s): |
Rosa Cristina Maria de Carvalho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2016-02-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Luciano Migliaccio;
Regina Polo Muller;
Afonso Carlos Neves;
Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni;
Marta Dantas da Silva
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| Advisor: | Luciano Migliaccio |
| Abstract | |
In the beginning of the 20th century, the phenomenon of madness was a subject much discussed in the Brazilian scenario of the arts, because writers, painters and musicians, who sought a new poetic inspiration in the imaginary established in dreams, reveries and associations of ideas, were classified as "insane" and "mentally degenerate" by conservative criticism. At that time, the physician Osório Thaumaturgo Cesar (1895-1979) wrote his first article about the symbolic manifestation elaborated by the patients of the Psychiatric Hospital of Juquery, in which he claimed the sincerity of the avant-garde art since it is the expression of a free art and full of aesthetic value. In that article, titled, "Primitive art in the alienated: sculptural manifestation with symbolic character fetishist in a case of paranoid dementia praecox", in which Osório Cesar began an extensive written production about the configuration similarities found in symbolic manifestations of madmen and artistic styles, especially in modern works.Since Osório Cesar demonstrated, through his writings, an opposite ideological posture to that presented by the conservative criticism, this research studied carefully the books, articles and a collection of approximately 400 chronicles written in the decades of 1940 and 1950, in order to understand which were the foundations of Osório Cesar¿s intellectual thought about art, especially in fine arts. In addition to contact with the artists (the painter Tarsila do Amaral, the writer Mário de Andrade and the painter and engineer Flávio de Carvalho, for example), his knowledge in psychoanalysis and information regarding collections of symbolic manifestation of the insane organized by German and French psychiatrists (who have established a consistent dialogue with participants of the expressionism, cubism, dadaism, surrealism, and with the members of the Compagnie de l¿art brut, after 1945), offered Osório Cesar encouragement to develop a private collection and prioritize it as a study document of formal characteristics found in the symbolic manifestations made by patients of the Psychiatric Hospital of Juquery. The analysis of the collection, offered to Osório Cesar a contact with a theoretical foundation which explained the artistic styles, figurative or abstract, as the expression of aesthetic feeling created by psychological needs of a civilization. The correspondence between formal style and psychic content received an explanation of psychoanalytical trend in the studies of Osório Cesar, because he justified the similar configuration found in the manifestations of the insane and in the works of avant-garde art with the principle of the primitive mind, in other words, the artist expressed the need to find a new art in the unconscious states of contemplation experienced by primitive man and by so-called primitive cultures: as the indigenous, African and oriental civilization. The principle of the primitive mind allowed Cesar Osorio to introduce the symbolic manifestation of the insane in the complex discussion of Primitivism in art (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/23279-5 - The construction of Osório Cesar's aesthetic thinking: the study of texts on art and culture written by him between 1920 and 1960. |
| Grantee: | Rosa Cristina Maria de Carvalho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |