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ESPAÇOS MODERNOS EM DISPUTA NO PRIMEIRO VOLPI

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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2026.13.12461

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Alfredo Volpi; Brazilian Modern Art; Italian Immigration.

Abstract

This article investigates the early years of Alfredo Volpi's career, spanning from the mid-1910s to the early 1920s, with a focus on the ways in which the painter operates with diverse modern references. The research develops through the formal and critical-historiographical analysis of some of his first canvases, articulating them with the cultural debate in São Paulo and the artist's training within the Italian immigrant community. The paper analyzes Volpi's modern characteristics three decades before his consecration in the 1950s, illuminating the aesthetic disputes that were reconfiguring the art scene in São Paulo at the beginning of the twentieth century

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Carlos Pires, Universidade de São Paulo

Carlos Pires é mestre e doutor em Letras (Teoria Literária e Literatura Comparada) pela Universidade de São Paulo e professor do Instituto Superior de Ensino Vera Cruz. Atua de maneira interdisciplinar principalmente nos seguintes temas: Modernismo, Lí­rica, Literatura e artes plásticas, canção popular e Literatura e Sociedade.Seu primeiro livro, "Frio tropical: tropicalismo e canção popular" (no prelo), é sobre as canções tropicalistas e o processo social no final da década de 1960 no Brasil e o segundo, "Apuros Modernos: o jovem João Cabral de Melo Neto" , é sobre a poesia moderna e a formação do seu campo artí­stico no Brasil. Sua pesquisa atual procura entender os percalços da arte moderna brasileira e latino-americana.

 

Carlos Pires is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo (Department of Comparative Literature) and a professor at the Instituto Superior de Ensino Vera Cruz. He works in an interdisciplinary way with a focus on Modernism, Brazilian Modern Art, Art and Literature, Art and Society and popular songs. His first book is on popular songs and social processes in the late 1960s in Brazil, "Frio tropical: tropicalismo e canção popular", and his second book, "Apuros Modernos: o jovem João Cabral de Melo Neto" , is on modern poetry and the formation of its artistic field in Brazil. His current research focuses on understanding the contradictions of modern art in some less developed countries.

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