{"id":243834,"date":"2025-08-20T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccb.pt\/evento\/conferencia-primitivos-em-paris-modernos-no-brasil\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:14:24","slug":"primitives-in-paris-moderns-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ccb.pt\/en\/evento\/primitives-in-paris-moderns-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Primitives in Paris, Moderns in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of primitivism has returned with force in the 21st century, entangled with contemporary debates around counter-coloniality. <em>A negra<\/em> (1923), by Tarsila do Amaral, is today a source of controversy for its problematic depiction of a racialised body. At the time, however, it was intended as a statement of modernity. Painted in Paris, the work was part of a broader effort to gain recognition for Brazilian art in the French capital.<\/p>\n<p>This talk focuses on the attempts made by certain Brazilian artists and intellectuals\u2014most notably Tarsila and Vicente do Rego Monteiro\u2014to gain a foothold in Parisian artistic circles. Both engaged with the then-fashionable idea of primitivism as a route to legitimacy and acclaim. Upon returning to Brazil, they repositioned themselves as exponents of a forward-looking modernism. By unpacking the strategies they employed and highlighting both similarities and differences, we can better understand the dialectic between primitivism and cosmopolitanism. Particular attention is given to the <em>Pau Brasil<\/em> movement, emphasising its conceptual specificity as a challenge to coloniality.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by MAC\/CCB in collaboration with the Institute of Art History, NOVA FCSH.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Rafael Cardoso<\/strong>, art historian and author of <em>Modernidade em preto e branco: Arte e imagem, ra\u00e7a e identidade no Brasil, 1890\u20131945<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As part of the exhibition <\/span><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccb.pt\/en\/evento\/an-atlantic-drift-20th-century-art-from-the-berardo-collection\/2025-08-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Atlantic Drift. The arts of the 20th century based on the Berardo Collection<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of primitivism has returned with force in the 21st century, entangled with contemporary debates around counter-coloniality. A negra (1923), by Tarsila do Amaral, is today a source of controversy for its problematic depiction of a racialised body. At the time, however, it was intended as a statement of modernity. 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