December 22, 1938: arthur Bispo do Rosário: an anthropological study of art and madness

Author(s)

Stéfanie Gil Franco

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2011-09-05

Examining board members

Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques; Fernanda Arêas Peixoto; Heloisa André Pontes

• Advisor: Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques

Abstract

This investigation is in search of, from a series of controversies, describing how to build a relationship between art and madness using the case of Arthur Bispo do Rosário as a reflexive environment. In short, work a series of headlines that are going to constitute at the understanding of the artistic expression of the mad, and how certain variations make possible to think Arthur Bispo do Rosário as a contemporary artist. Considering that we only have art in madness from the preoccupation of the psychology to unveil the universally of the human mind, we see the arising of a movement in search of differentiate the art of the Normal of the expression of the Primitive and Insane. With the ascendancy of the contemporary art and the new frontiers between the artistic knowledge and the psychological knowledge, a new debate is open thinking the art, not anymore like an universal expression and inherent to man, but as a language possible in all men and not intrinsic to him. With that, the work of Bispo do Rosário for its language became one of the main objects of the dissociation of the narrow relationship among Modern Art, Psychoanalysis and Madness in Brazil. I proposed to think of the Mission of the Bispo do Rosário as a powerful speech, which culminated on three parallel paths: the first, the reconstruction of the world itself, a transgressive world and little legible, but, interesting for composing a way of existence; the second, the madness, that has a Mission the element of diagnosis of the schizophrenic; and the third, the contemporary art, that appropriates itself of the missionary speech, conforming it in the artists performance. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/06684-3 - 1938 December 22th: Arthur Bispo do Rosário: an anthropological study about art and madness
• Grantee: Stefanie Gil Franco
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master