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A breach for the surrealism : perceptions of the surrealist movement in Brazil between the 1920s and 1940s

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Author(s):
Thiago Gil de Oliveira Virava
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Domingos Tadeu Chiarelli; Annateresa Fabris; Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
Advisor: Domingos Tadeu Chiarelli
Abstract

This work intends to survey the different ways by which the surrealist movement was perceived by Brazilian modernist artists and writers, between the 1920s and 1940s. It starts with a presentation and discussion of documents and bibliography about the surrealist discourse on art and its relevance in the context of the movement. Afterwards, based on a selection of works by five Brazilian artists (Tarsila do Amaral, Cícero Dias, Ismael Nery, Jorge de Lima and Flávio de Carvalho) together with a set of documents (articles, letters, manifestoes) produced in Brazil during the period studied, it analyses the approaches and detachments between the Brazilian and French movements. In order to avoid either a simplistic confrontation or labeling the works discussed \"surrealists\", the analysis is made without putting aside a discussion about the insertion of each artist in the context of artistic and intellectual local debates in the period. From this methodological perspective, it is possible to observe how the potential interest in the surrealism expressed by each artist appears mediated by other interests, affined to those debates. Thereby it underlines the singularity of that interest and the objective form it has assumed in the production of each artist (AU)

FAPESP's process: 10/04779-4 - Surrealism and Modernism: Surrealist experiences in Brazilian art in the decades from 1920 to 1940
Grantee:Thiago Gil de Oliveira Virava
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master