Aurora : memórias e delírios de uma mulher da vida / Silvana Jeha e Joel Birman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeha, Silvana, author.

Birman, Joel, author.

Language:

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Santos, Aurora Cursino dos, 1896-1959.

Santos, Aurora Cursino dos.

Women painters--Brazil--Biography.

Women painters.

Painters--Brazil--Biography.

Painters.

Art and mental illness--Brazil.

Art and mental illness.

Physical Description:

164 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Memórias e delírios de uma mulher da vida

Place of Publication:

São Paulo : Veneta, [2022]

Summary:

Born in 1896 in São José dos Campos, Aurora Cursino dos Santos was a prostitute, tried to be a maid, lived in hostels until she was admitted to the Juquery Psychiatric Complex, in 1944. There, she created a pictorial work of more than 200 paintings. Attendee of the Escola Livre de Artes Plásticas do Juquery, created at the institution by psychiatrist Osório César who, alongside Nise da Silveira, was one of the main authors of studies on art and mental health in Brazil Aurora painted her story. From 1950 onwards, she had her paintings in exhibitions on art and madness in Paris, at Masp, at MAM/SP, at the Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art and in the exhibition O rei que o parta, on display at SESC 24 de Maio. In the same period that she developed her artistic work, she was subjected to electroshock and, finally, lobotomized. She died in 1959. Family, sex, drugs, revolt against violence and oppression suffered by women are some of her themes. Her paintings scream. Historian Silvana Jeha and psychoanalyst Joel Birman listened to her, and the result is this book that features dozens of her paintings, an effort for her to be included in the history of Brazilian art, not just as a parallel narrative. Moving between the fields of history, art history, psychoanalysis and feminist literature, Aurora Memórias e Delírios de uma Mulher da Vida is also an important document on the condition of women in Brazil in the 20th century. As the authors note in the book's presentation: Bitch, crazy and, finally, artist, she condenses in her work something that concerns all womenʺ. With graphic design by Gustavo Piqueira, from the Casa Rex studio, the book features a preface-poem by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, winner of the São Paulo Literature and Oceans awards in 2021.

Contents:

O avesso do avesso

Aura na sombra

Arte e loucura : atravessando limiares

Memória e delírio, pictografias da existência

Maternidade

Mulher da vida : sexo e religião

O juquery

Puta feminista

Pinturas.

Notes:

"Como resultado de um pós-doutorado no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teoria Psicanalítica no Instituto de Psicologia da UFRJ, foi escrito a quatro mãos pela pós-doutoranda, historiadora, e seu supervisor, psicanalista e psiquiatra"--Page 9.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-164).

ISBN:

9788595711518

8595711518

OCLC:

1350251243