A transgressão do "popular" na década de 60: os Parangolés e a Tropicália de Hélio Oiticica

Authors

  • Gabriel Girnos Elias de Souza Universidade de São Paulo; Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v0i3p86-103

Keywords:

Hélio Oiticica, folk culture, Brazilian art, national identity

Abstract

The essay studies the relationship of the artist Hélio Oiticica with "folk" aspects of Brazilian culture in the years between 1964 and 1968, as expressed in some of his texts and art works. Often despised as archaic or idealized as folklore, the images of "people" in Brazil have always been made by the sight of dominant "official" culture. Linked to the sixties' politic-cultural context, Oiticica's "anti-art" was one of the artistic manifestations that stood against the simultaneous idealization and exclusion of the folk culture, rather searching to understand and assimilate its creative and subversive potential. Passing through both social and artistic establishment, that attitude would oppose to populist bias and images of Brazil.

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Published

2006-01-01

Issue

Section

Papers and Essays

How to Cite

Souza, G. G. E. de. (2006). A transgressão do "popular" na década de 60: os Parangolés e a Tropicália de Hélio Oiticica. Risco - Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 3, 86-103. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-4506.v0i3p86-103