Dates: From August 8th to November 28th, Thursdays
Time: from 2 PM to 6 PM
Registration: from 8/7 to 30/7 via email acadmp@usp.br
Job openings: 5, for undergraduate students not enrolled at USP
Location of classes: classroom at the Ipiranga Museum.
Presenter: Professor Dr. Ana Paula Nascimento
The course focuses on accounts and images produced by foreign artist-scientist-travelers who explored São Paulo throughout the 19th century, and how such landscapes, buildings, customs, and forms of work were represented and disseminated.
This will be contrasted with the representations produced by some local members and how the same elements are interpreted and appropriated for a specific historical construction, especially by Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay, when he was director of the Museu Paulista (1917-1945), both in some of the institution's exhibitions and in other media. Finally, it will explore how such images and texts are analyzed in contemporary times.
Program
I - Prologue
1. Program Presentation
2. Concepts of representation, practices and appropriations
3. Illustration and Romanticism: The Territories of Reason and Sensibility
4. The notions of nature in the 18th and 19th centuries
5. The sublime and the picturesque
6. The romantic landscape
7. Study visit to a cultural institution
II- Visions and descriptions
1. Visions of the New World: the difference as interpreted by the foreigner
2. Images of the colonial country: travelers and the representation of tropical nature
3. Images of the colonial country: travelers and the representation of villages
4. Images of the colonial country: travelers and the representation of work
5. Image Transit
6. Completing the journey through the printed account
7. Study visit to a cultural institution
III- The appropriation of narratives and images
1. The construction of places of memory
2. The Paulista Museum in the conception of Afonso Taunay: exhibition as an ideological instrument
3. The use of images and travelers' accounts at the Museu Paulista
4. An exemplary case: Hercule Florence at the Paulista Museum
5. Local (itinerant) artists on the walls of the Museum: Miguelzinho Dutra and José Wasth Rodrigues
6. Expanding sources: other travelers
7. The contemporary perspective
8. Guidance for the final project
