Maria Martins: Singular and Plural

Pedro  Hussak; Marta D'Angelo

doi:10.25038/am.v0i26.466

Authors

Pedro Hussak
Marta D'Angelo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i26.466

Keywords:

Maria Martins, Surrealism, Mário Pedrosa, Benjamin Péret

Abstract

This article analyses two approaches to the work of Brazilian artist Maria Martins on the basis of texts by Brazilian art critic Mário Pedrosa and French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret dealing specifically with her production. The context of this two different approaches is the artist’s return to Brazil and her first exhibitions in the country in the early 1950s. While Pedrosa, from a reading based on the conceptions of modernism at the time, takes a critical stance towards Maria Martins, Péret defends surrealist principles, adopting a stance favorable to the artist’s work. The analysis of this two different approaches points out the relationship of the artist with Brazilian popular culture and the artistic avant-gardes of the first half of the 20th century, especially Martins’ approach to the surrealist movement.

Article received: April 24, 2021; Article accepted: July 30, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper

How to cite this article: Hussak, Pedro & Marta D'Angelo. "Maria Martins: Singular and Plural." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 26 (October 2021): 21-29. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i26.466

Author Biographies

Pedro Hussak

Department of Philosophy, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

Pedro Hussak was born in 1973. He completed his undergraduate course in 1996, his master’s degree in 2000 and PhD in 2005 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is an associate professor at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRuralRJ), where he works in the Post-Graduate Programme of Philosophy. In 2014, he did a post-doctoral training with a CAPES scholarship at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Since 2018 he takes part in the CAPES-COFECUB programme "Estética contemporânea: diálogo de culturas” (Contemporary aesthetics, a dialogue of cultures), a partnership between the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has published a number of articles on aesthetics and edited books Educação Estética: de Schiller a Marcuse, Artes do corpo, corpos das artes and Modernismes, Antropophagies. In addition, as a guest editor, he organized dossiers “Rancière” 1 and 2 for journals Aisthe, published by UFRJ, and Poiesis, published by the Federal University Fluminense (UFF), and dossiers “Arte Contemporânea: Anacronismo e pos-conceitualismo” in 2016 and “Arte, Arquitetura, Paisagem” in 2020.

Marta D'Angelo

Department of Pedagogical Foundations, Federal University Fluminense
Brazil

Martha D'Angelo was born in 1949 holds a PhD in Philosophy awarded by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and did a post-doctorate at the School of Media and Arts of the State University of São Paulo (USP). She carries out research in Aesthetics, more specifically on the work of Walter Benjamin and art critic Mário Pedrosa. She published a number of articles on these authors, including books Arte, política e educação em Walter Benjamin (published by Loyola in 2006) and Educação estética e crítica de arte na obra de Mário Pedrosa (published by NAU in 2011). In 2020 she published texts in collective works Artes do corpo, corpos das artes (published by Relicário) and Modernismes, Anthrophagies (published by French publisher Mimésis). She has taught at the Federal University Fluminense (UFF) and is now retired.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i26.466 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i26.466