Roteiros do Abaporu

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.70042

Keywords:

Abaporu, Tarsila do Amaral, Canon, Art market, Anthropophagic movement.

Abstract

Tarsila de Amaral’s Abaporu is perhaps the most canonical image of 20th-century Brazilian art, but this was not always the case. In what way and for what reasons has the Abaporu become a massive emblem that is reproduced on clothing and in memes? This article aims to answer this question through a history that includes aesthetic, economic, geopolitical and historical issues.

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Original in Spanish.

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Author Biography

Gonzalo Moises Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires

É Professor Titular de Literatura Brasileira na Universidad de Buenos Aires e Coordenador do Mestrado Literaturas de América Latina na Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). É autor, dentre outros, dos livros Poesia concreta brasileira; As vanguardas na encruzilhada modernista (2003); Otros mundos. Un ensayo sobre el nuevo cine argentino (2006); Por una ciencia del vestigio errático. Ensayos sobre la antropofagia de Oswald de Andrade (2010); Hélio Oiticica, a asa branca do êxtase: arte brasileira de 1964-1980 (2016) e A máquina performática, a literatura no campo experimental (2017), em colaboração com Mario Cámara. Em 2021, foi curador, com Samuel Titán, da exposição Madalena Schwartz: As Metamorfoses – Travestis e transformistas na SP dos anos 70, exibida no Instituto Moreira Salles (SP) e no museu MALBA de Buenos Aires.

Published

2022-11-08

How to Cite

AGUILAR, Gonzalo Moises. Roteiros do Abaporu. MATRAGA - Journal published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, v. 29, n. 57, p. 527–536, 2022. DOI: 10.12957/matraga.2022.70042. Disponível em: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/70042. Acesso em: 28 may. 2025.