REFRAMING VISUAL CULTURE IN POST-WA

ISBN-13: 9780367030940 / Twarda / 2024

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Opis

Artistic Migration investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer, who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, and were involved in the first activities and opportunities created by the São Paulo Museum of Art.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Ideas from Brazil: A Promised Land Below the Equator

The promised land of modern architecture and art

Between the wars: Fascism, the New State, and the inventions of modern Italian and Brazilian art and architecture

Post-war immigration and the creation of MASP

Massaguassu

News from the tropics

Letter from Brazil

The discovery and invention of Bahia

Invention

Chapter 2: Mass Culture, Folk Culture: The Educational Aims of Museums, Industrial and Graphic Design

The Promised Land of Modern Design?

Between the wars

Museums as design schools in post-war Brazil: the first MASP

The Studio d’Arte Palma in São Paulo

A teacher as a student: Roberto Sambonet and his first work in design

Bramante Buffoni and graphic art in Brazil

Museums as schools: courses at the MAMB and The School of Industrial Design at MAP

Possible actions after 1964

On the road to re-democratization

Chapter 3: Exhibiting and Demonstrating Through Architecture: Museum, Exhibit, and Retail Store Projects

The Promised Land of Modern Museography

Occasions for experimentation in Italy and Brazil: exhibiting between the wars

Expographic experimentation in the immediate post-war period: the first MASP

Post-war expography in Brazil: artworks in city store windows

One exhibition and three museums: a proposal for a “synthesis of the arts”

The Hand of the Brazilian People and the Return of Sambonet

Other experiences until the mid-1980s

A Brazilian expography

Chapter 4: A Space for Life, a Space for Art: the House, the Factory, the Monument, and the City

The promised land of modern architecture, art, and city

Before April 1945

Brazil and Italy as laboratories of “Integration” and the “Synthesis of the Arts” after World War II

The house of Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi: art, architecture, and life

The panels for the city

The monument

The factory: a “total work of art” among control and chance

A double movement

Chapter 5: Reframing, Discovering, and Inventing Culture

O autorze

Aline Coelho Sanches is Professor of the Theory and History of Architecture at the University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Architecture and Urbanism (IAU-USP), Brazil. She holds a PhD with honors in Architectural Composition from Milan Polytechnic, and BA and master’s degree in architecture and urban planning from Sao Paulo University. She has, for several years studied the role played by Italian architects who immigrated to Brazil, publishing in international collective volumes and journals. She coordinated the axis of documentary study of the history of the Glass House, built by Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi, on the team in charge of its Conservation Management Plan, funded by The Getty Foundation’s Keeping It Modern Program. For one of the results of this work, she received an award from the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, in 2020. She has worked as an architect, with published projects.