Research Catalog

Title

Djanira : picturing Brazil / edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille, Rodrigo Moura ; curated by Isabella Rjeille, Rodrigo Moura ; texts, Adriano Pedrosa, Carlos Eduardo Riccioppo, Clarival do Prado Valladares, Flávio de Aquino, Frederico Morais, Isabella Rjeille, Kaira M. Cabañas, Lélia Coelho Frota, Luiza Interlenghi, Mário Pedrosa, Marc Berkowitz, Rodrigo Moura ; translation, Célia Euvaldo.

Author

Djanira, 1914-1979

Publication

• São Paulo, Brasil [Brazil] : MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand ; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil [Brazil] : Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Pedrosa, Adriano
• Rjeille, Isabella
• Moura, Rodrigo
• Euvaldo, Célia
• Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, issuing body, host institution
• Casa Roberto Marinho, issuing body, host institution

Description

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, color facsimiles; 29 x 21 cm

Summary

"This is the first large monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Djanira da Motta e Silva (Avaré, São Paulo, 1914-1979, Rio de Janeiro) since her death, forty years ago. Largely self-taught and coming from a working background, the artist emerged on the Brazilian art scene in the 1940s. Although she developed a solid career during life, in recent decades her work has been relegated to the side of the official narratives of the history of Brazilian art. This show seeks, therefore, to examine Djanira's fundamental role in the formation of Brazilian visual culture and to reposition her work in the art history of her country during the 20th century. The title Djanira: Picturing Brazil refers to the artist's career path, life story and many trips around Brazil, as well as to her painting and its profound engagement with the reality around her. The reference to Brazil, in Djanira's case, speaks of the extraordinary visual and symbolic repertoire the artist created from the everyday life, landscape and popular culture of her country, championing themes often marginalized by the elites. This exhibition includes works from all periods of Djanira's artistic production, from the beginning of the 1940s to the end of the 1970s, and is arranged in approximate chronological order while grouping the artworks according to the artist's main subjects: portraits and self-portraits, popular festivals and diversions, work and workers, Afro-Brazilian and Catholic religiosity, and the Canela indigenous people of Maranhão, among various Brazilian landscapes and peoples."--

Alternative Title

Picturing Brazil

Subject

• Djanira, 1914-1979 > Exhibitions
• Djanira, 1914-1979
• 1900-1999
• Painting, Brazilian > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Women artists > Brazil > History > 20th century > Biography > Exhibitions
• Black people > Material culture > Brazil > In art > Exhibitions
• Art, Brazilian > African influences > Exhibitions
• Art, Brazilian > African influences
• Manners and customs
• Painting, Brazilian
• Women artists
• Brazil > In art > Exhibitions
• São Paulo (Brazil) > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
• Brazil
• Brazil > São Paulo

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibitions held March 1 - May 19, 2019 at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, and in June, 27 - October 27, 2019 at the Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho, in Rio de Janeiro.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-303).

Language (note)

• Essays translated from the Portuguese.

Contents

Djanira at Casa Roberto Marinho / Laura Cavalcanti -- Djanira at MASP / Heito Martins and Adriano Pedrosa -- Djanira: the memory of her people / Rodrigo Moura -- Chronicle of a self-made woman / Isabella Rjeille -- Indigenous Djanira / Adriano Pedrosa -- Reproduction of the works -- Woman at the window / Luiza Interlenghi -- Painting's countenance / Kaira M. Cabañas -- A gamble / Carlos Eduardo Riccioppo -- Djanira and art criticism / Frederico Morais -- Djanira's exhibition / Marc Berkowitz, 1948 -- Djanira / Adriano Pedrosa, 1958 -- Djanira's human world / Flávio de Aquino, 1962 -- The retrospective view of Djanira's work / Clarival do Prado Valladares, 1976 -- Painting and labor in Djanira's works / Lélia Coelho Frota, 2001 -- Documents Arquivo Djanira -- List of works in the exhibition -- Exhibition history.

Call Number

JX 22-13

ISBN

• 9788531000652
• 8531000653

OCLC

1111918101

Author

Djanira, 1914-1979, artist.

Title

Djanira : picturing Brazil / edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille, Rodrigo Moura ; curated by Isabella Rjeille, Rodrigo Moura ; texts, Adriano Pedrosa, Carlos Eduardo Riccioppo, Clarival do Prado Valladares, Flávio de Aquino, Frederico Morais, Isabella Rjeille, Kaira M. Cabañas, Lélia Coelho Frota, Luiza Interlenghi, Mário Pedrosa, Marc Berkowitz, Rodrigo Moura ; translation, Célia Euvaldo.

Publisher

São Paulo, Brasil [Brazil] : MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand ; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil [Brazil] : Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Brazilians

Women

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-303).

Language

Essays translated from the Portuguese.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Djanira, 1914-1979. Paintings. Selections.

Pedrosa, Adriano, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Rjeille, Isabella, editor, curator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Moura, Rodrigo, editor, curator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Euvaldo, Célia, translator.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, issuing body, host institution.

Casa Roberto Marinho, issuing body, host institution.

Research Call Number

JX 22-13