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- Title
Visual culture in Brazil's First Republic (1889–1930): allegories and elite discourse.
- Authors
Salguero, Valéria
- Abstract
The research on which the present work is based analyses the ornamentation of the façades of major Brazilian public buildings and investigates how that representation contributed to the construction of a visual national identity during Brazil's First Republic (1889–1930). Two government buildings are discussed: Pedro Ernesto Palace, inaugurated in 1923 to house the municipal chamber of Rio de Janeiro, and Tiradentes Palace, erected in the years 1922–26 to house Brazil's Parliament. The article focuses on the allegorical figures ornamenting these two buildings in order to explore contradictory aspects of the discourse they convey. It will be argued that visual culture, more precisely architecture and architectural sculpture, served the elites of this period as a powerful tool for projecting their values and for preventing contradictions within Brazilian society from emerging in visual terms.
- Subjects
PRACA Tiradentes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); BRAZIL; FIRST Brazilian Republic; ART &; politics; PUBLIC buildings; ARCHITECTURE &; society; NATIONAL character; NATIONALISM
- Publication
Nations & Nationalism, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
1354-5078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00239.x