Araújo-Porto Alegre's Battlefield

Authors

  • Carlos Zilio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2015.106069

Keywords:

Manuel de Araújo Porto Alegre, modernity, Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Brazilian art, art criticism.

Abstract

The text reexamines issues the author approached in a lecture done at Escola de Belas Artes of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in 1997, and draws attention to a crucial topic in Araujo Porto Alegre’s thought – the political and cultural scope of this work, whose author Zilio reputes a very public intelectual in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. In this manner, the modernity of the work would reside, for Zilio, above all in its public scope; he still enphasizes the political role Porto Alegre assigned to a national school of fine arts, as well as the iluminist conception inspiring him in this task, as it interlaced ethical and aesthetic motifs

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Author Biography

  • Carlos Zilio
    Universidade de São Paulo.

Published

2015-12-22

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Multimedia

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