Name: Evelyn Camila da Silva Pinheiro
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 23/03/2018
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Elaine de Azevedo | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Aline Trigueiro Vicente | Internal Examiner * |
| Elaine de Azevedo | Advisor * |
| Maria Cristina Dadalto | Internal Alternate * |
| Raquel de Oliveira Pedro Garbelotti | External Alternate * |
| Yiftah Peled | External Examiner * |
Summary: ABSTRACT
This essay aims to locate the Socially Engaged Art (SEA) within the field of Sociology. It seeks to understand how Sociology has looked at Art in the course of history and WHERE there is room to absorb the possibilities of political engagement the ASE would allow Sociology to embrace. ASE is understood here as artistic practices allowing social, economic, environmental and political criticism. Through the ASE, artists use their poetics to construct such criticisms, conceding participation and the collaboration of spectators, as well as promoting questions about the current system. In this analysis, the interweaving between Sociology and Art is made from three important moments: the emergence of Sociology of Art, the transition to Sociological Art and later to the Socially Engaged Art. The historical of each moment is particular and crosses different contexts and countries, however, for the understanding of ASE the look was launched for the Brazilian Military Dictatorship and how this political moment has benn approached by visual artists like Cildo Meireles, Arthur Barrio, Hélio Oiticica and Antonio Manuel. Currently the subject has been approached by Rafael Pagatini, an artist rooted in Espírito Santo. Two of his recent exhibitions were attended in this research. A qualitative approach is used, through documentary and bibliographical analysis in order to understand the Socially Engaged Art and the possibilities of dialogue with the Social Sciences.
Keywords: art, dictatorship, politics, engagement.
