POPULAR CULTURE GOES TO THE MUSEUM: HÉLIO OITICICA’S TROPICALIA

Authors

  • Carla Hermann Uerj

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/tecap.2010.12147

Keywords:

BRAZILIANITY, HÉLIO OITICICA, POPULAR CULTURE, HYBRID CULTURES, TROPICÁLIA.

Abstract

Based on the idea of contemporary cultural manifestations as hybrid cultures, this article aims at understanding how a sense of brazilianity is structured being equally hybrid, and uses Hélio Oiticica’s work Tropicália (1967) for visual and aesthetic example. Interpreting popular culture as the result of the double movement of resisting and containing, and considering the changes suffered by the most traditional aspects of culture as well as the transformations resulting from them on the globalizing world and its technical and scientific environments, the legitimacy of the referred work of art as popular art is not approached. Instead, the installation is seen here as part of popular Brazilian culture, a manifestation able to reveal symbolic, political and cultural issues as well as illustrate a hybrid brazilianity under construction.

Published

2010-05-01

How to Cite

Hermann, C. (2010). POPULAR CULTURE GOES TO THE MUSEUM: HÉLIO OITICICA’S TROPICALIA. Textos Escolhidos De Cultura E Arte Populares, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.12957/tecap.2010.12147

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