POPULAR CULTURE GOES TO THE MUSEUM: HÉLIO OITICICA’S TROPICALIA

Based on the idea of contemporary cultural manifestations as hybrid cultures, this article aims at understanding how a sense of brazilianity is structured being equally hybrid, and uses Hélio Oiticica’s work Tropicália (1967) for visual and aesthetic example. Interpreting popular culture as the resu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Hermann, Carla
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Repositorio:Textos escolhidos de cultura e arte populares (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br:article/12147
Acceso en línea:https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/tecap/article/view/12147
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:BRAZILIANITY
HÉLIO OITICICA
POPULAR CULTURE
HYBRID CULTURES
TROPICÁLIA.
BRASILIDADE
CULTURA POPULAR
CULTURAS HÍBRIDAS
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Sumario:Based on the idea of contemporary cultural manifestations as hybrid cultures, this article aims at understanding how a sense of brazilianity is structured being equally hybrid, and uses Hélio Oiticica’s work Tropicália (1967) for visual and aesthetic example. Interpreting popular culture as the result of the double movement of resisting and containing, and considering the changes suffered by the most traditional aspects of culture as well as the transformations resulting from them on the globalizing world and its technical and scientific environments, the legitimacy of the referred work of art as popular art is not approached. Instead, the installation is seen here as part of popular Brazilian culture, a manifestation able to reveal symbolic, political and cultural issues as well as illustrate a hybrid brazilianity under construction.