Robert C. Smith entre o barroco e o modernismo brasileiros
This article focuses on the period encompassing the first trip of the American art historian Robert Chester Smith to Brazil, in 1937. In the following years, Robert Smith showed a lively interest in Brazilian culture that went beyond the immediate scope of his research on Brazil’s colonial art and a...
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| Format: | Book chapter |
| Publication date: | 2024 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) |
| Repository: | RIO. Repositorio Institucional Olavide |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:rio.upo.es:10433/22082 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22082 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Robert Chester Smith Barroco brasileiro Modernismo brasileiro SPHAN Rodrigo Melo Franco Candido Portinari Barroco brasileño Modernismo brasileño |
| Summary: | This article focuses on the period encompassing the first trip of the American art historian Robert Chester Smith to Brazil, in 1937. In the following years, Robert Smith showed a lively interest in Brazilian culture that went beyond the immediate scope of his research on Brazil’s colonial art and architecture. His active engagement in promoting Brazilian contemporary art in cultural institutions in the United States, as well as his tireless work in Brazil, echoing the aspirations of the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service, attest to Smith’s involvement in a project that extrapolated “objective” art-historical research. Supported and welcomed by the Brazilian cultural and political elite, Smith ended up contributing to a national project — one that allied Brazilian modern art to its colonial history — whose roots can be found in the first republic, but which was institutionally endorsed by the first government of Getúlio Vargas between 1937 and 1945. |
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