Modernismo + Arquitetura = Democracia: o apagamento da ditadura do Capital Cultural no MoMa

Patricio del Real

doi:10.37916/arq.urb.vi29.490

Authors

Patricio del Real https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6514-2921

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37916/arq.urb.vi29.490

Keywords:

Exhibitions, MoMA, postwar, Latin American architecture, Brazil Builds, modern architecture, Henry-Rusell Hitchcock

Abstract

As cultural artefacts, architectural exhibitions have fostered dominant political imaginaries. In the mid-20^th Century, New York’s Museum of Modern Art and its Department of Architecture and Design presented modern architecture as a symbol of liberty and democracy under the egis of the United States. Modern architecture in Latin America played an important role in this worldview. Starting with the exhibition Brazil Builds, MoMA deployed a strong curatorial agenda to stage this message and used its exhibitions as cultural weapons to manage dictatorships in the region and to explain to U.S. audiences how “democracy” worked in Latin America.

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Author Biography

Patricio del Real

Patricio del Real teaches at Harvard's History of Art and Architecture department. Ph.D. from Columbia University and Ms. Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Co-curated the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 (Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalog Award).

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