- 著者
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居村 匠
- 出版者
- 美学会
- 雑誌
- 美学 (ISSN:05200962)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.70, no.2, pp.61-72, 2019 (Released:2021-05-08)
This paper characterizes a Brazilian critic Oswald de Andrade’s ‘Brazilianness
(brasilidade)’ by analyzing his art critique. It is accepted that ‘philosophy
of anthropophagy’ proposed by Andrade’s “Anthropophagy Manifest (Manifesto
Antropófago, 1928)” defines the 20th century Brazilian culture. The idea of the
philosophy of anthropophagy as a cultural constructional model ignores, however,
socio-political visions in Andrade’s works. I clarify the significance of art for Andrade
and connect his writings of art in the modernist era and socio-political writings in his
later years.
Andrade praises art based on Brazilian life, nature, and history as representative art
of Brazil, national art. Further, according to his review concerning Anita Malfatti’s solo
exhibition in 1917, Andrade criticizes art from a western point of view. Finally, the paper
clarifies representations of Brazilianness by analyzing Andrade’s critiques about two
painters, Tarsila do Amaral and Lasar Segall. In conclusion, I show that Brazilianness
for Andrade is an expression both based on Brazilian life, nature, and history and
executed well in western criteria. Andrade’s Brazilianness is also problematic in terms
of internalizing of western exoticism. At the same time, however, it is possible for the
Brazilianness to subvert Eurocentrism.