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A arte de gravar em madeira está assumindo o seu papel
1986This brief text is about the art of woodcut printing and its traditional use in the genre of “cordel literature” (or string literature) in northeastern Brazil. The author, Barboza Leite, notes its increasing recognition as an artistic language. [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110787 -
Apresentação
1984This text is the preface by Eduardo Menezes to the book Xilógrafos de Juazeiro, which addresses the use of woodcuts in northeastern Brazil, particularly in representations of the tension between dominant and subaltern cultures. The author briefly [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110754 -
Notas sôbre a xilogravura popular brasileira
1970In this essay the art critic Roberto Pontual discusses xylography, or woodcut printing, describing it as “basic creativity,” a term he considers more appropriate than “folk art.” He notes the lack of studies on the subject and mentions the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111031 -
Sobre o político
2000This text traces two parallel ways of understanding the prints in João Câmara’s series Cenas da Vida Brasileira [Scenes from Brazilian Life]. The first entails the artist’s passage from wood engraving—traditionally associated with the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110708 -
Um grande xilógrafo
1944In his review of Oswaldo Goeldi’s exhibition at the Salão do Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, Campofiorito asserts that Goeldi is a unique artist insofar as his work is extremely accessible to critics, yet [at the same time], [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111010