Public diplomacy on the front line : the Exhibition of modern Brazilian paintings / Hayle Gadelha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gadelha, Hayle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Brazilian--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, Brazilian.

Modernism (Art)--Brazil--Exhibitions.

Modernism (Art).

Modernism (Art)--Great Britain--Exhibitions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 189 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London, England : Anthem Press, 2024.

Summary:

The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues throughout the United Kingdom in 1944 and 1945, was the first collective display of Brazil's art shown in the United Kingdom and the largest ever sent abroad until then. It resulted from an initiative championed by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry and envisioned by seventy Modernist painters who donated 168 artworks as a contribution to the Allied War effort. Notwithstanding its historical relevance and unmatched scale, this event had never been academically investigated. Through exploring why and how successfully the Brazilian government devoted superlative efforts to this enterprise in the midst of World War II, this book is intended to fill this gap and gain an understanding of a largely neglected public aspect of a deeply studied period of Brazilian foreign policy.<br><br>The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode, adopting the hermeneutic method and a theoretical framework from the Public Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy fields in order to interpret the circumstances that made possible this improbable and challenging endeavor. It contends that the Exhibition was a remarkably innovative action of Public Diplomacy avant la lettre, which aimed at engaging with British society and enhancing the image of Brazil and its culture. Its motivations must be understood within the broader foreign policy, focused on obtaining prestige and repositioning Brazil in the postwar international order, which encompassed the deployment of 25,000 troops to fight in Europe.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Acronyms

Introduction

1. Historical Context

Emergence of Modernism in Brazil

Internationalisation of Brazilian Visual Arts

Brazil's Wartime Foreign Policy

Brazil's Image before the Exhibition

2. The Exhibition

Background

Arrangements

The Show

The Catalogue

Navarra's Criticism

Press Coverage

Before the Show

At Burlington House

During the Tour

3. Hermeneutics of the Exhibition

Meanings

Legacies

Conclusions

References

Appendix

List of Artworks

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Gadelha, Hayle Public Diplomacy on the Front Line

ISBN:

9781839989414

1839989416

9781839989407

1839989408

OCLC:

1405935539