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A escultura monumental em Belém do Pará
| Resumo: | Under the title “A Monumental Sculpture in Belem: Three Pieces and one Romantic Traject ”, this essay analyses three different sculptures distributed along a route inside Belém, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará. The purpose of this work is to ascertain the hypothesis of the existence of a sculptural path where the public power used these mechanisms in a conscious manner, hoping to give the city a “modern” look, by the standards of the time. These sculptures are part of an effort to apply a “bellevue” logic in the city. These transformations were possible due to the fact that the city become the central point of the exportation of the Amazon rubber industry, after the decade of 1840. The profits of this industry were the main source behind the increase of the investment in the region, of which said interventions are a good example. This phenomenon become know in historiography as the “Belle Époque” of Belém and it was characterized not only by the sophistication of the local population habits, but also by the gradual adaptation of an eclectic architecture, inspired by the European model of the time. The monuments erected during the timeframe that this essay is analyzing, of which the statues chosen are paradigmatic examples, would be able to create a sense of collective memory, focused on a nationalistic feeling. This feeling would be supported by historiography that would help to divulge a nationalist feeling of pride through this idea of the debt from the people to past “heroes” that exemplified the virtues of a country in search of a national identity. Hence, these monuments would help to support a collective memory that was based in a social construction of reality created by an extremely nationalist historiography |
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| Autores principais: | Rodrigues, Randy da Silva, 1977- |
| Assunto: | História do Brasil Escultura Monumentos Romantismo Memória Belém do Pará (Brasil) |
| Ano: | 2013 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Under the title “A Monumental Sculpture in Belem: Three Pieces and one Romantic Traject ”, this essay analyses three different sculptures distributed along a route inside Belém, the capital of the Brazilian state of Pará. The purpose of this work is to ascertain the hypothesis of the existence of a sculptural path where the public power used these mechanisms in a conscious manner, hoping to give the city a “modern” look, by the standards of the time. These sculptures are part of an effort to apply a “bellevue” logic in the city. These transformations were possible due to the fact that the city become the central point of the exportation of the Amazon rubber industry, after the decade of 1840. The profits of this industry were the main source behind the increase of the investment in the region, of which said interventions are a good example. This phenomenon become know in historiography as the “Belle Époque” of Belém and it was characterized not only by the sophistication of the local population habits, but also by the gradual adaptation of an eclectic architecture, inspired by the European model of the time. The monuments erected during the timeframe that this essay is analyzing, of which the statues chosen are paradigmatic examples, would be able to create a sense of collective memory, focused on a nationalistic feeling. This feeling would be supported by historiography that would help to divulge a nationalist feeling of pride through this idea of the debt from the people to past “heroes” that exemplified the virtues of a country in search of a national identity. Hence, these monuments would help to support a collective memory that was based in a social construction of reality created by an extremely nationalist historiography |
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