Atuação do artista plastico no ambiente psiquiatrico : a experiencia do Juqueri na decada de 50 / Performance of plastic artist in psychiatric environment : the experience of Juqueri in the 50 s

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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This study discusses the participation of the visual artists Maria Leontina, Clélia Rocha and Moacyr de Vicentis Rocha in the Arts Sector inside the Juqueri Psychiatric Hospital, that by 1956 became known as the Escola Livre de Artes Plásticas. This is a documentary study using books, newspaper articles, correspondence and photographs that enabled us to identify and describe the artistic activities that were proposed in this sector. This material also helps us understand how Osório Thaumaturgo César, medical doctor, intellectual and art critic, promoted a dialogue between the fields of art and health from the nineteen thirties through the fifties. Interviews with Moacyr Rochas s relatives and friends and with other researchers studying this period enabled us to build a narrative about how the artists understood the making of art within the hospital context. The results demonstrated the artists role in the development of the art workshop in the hospital setting. As they brought materials that were more appropriate for visual arts productions, as they taught the patients about the language of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics, as they established exhibition spaces within the Arts Section, they were able to show that the production of the alienated men and women, which at first had been mainly a concern of psychiatrists, was worth the attention and dedication of arts professionals. The three visual artists focused in this study recognized the importance of the experience of a workshop in the hospital for their professional lives as artists, as they promoted new means of artistic creation within the psychiatric hospital setting.

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artes plasticas psiquiatria - brasil - historia visual arts arte - psicologia art psychiatry

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