- 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.