Considero Oswald de Andrade um dos maiores poetas do mundo. Oswald elabora uma das mais conscientes estratégias de superação dialética do conflito local versus global. A Tragédia tinha por função despertar esse sentimento de elevação da consciência, cujo movimento seria do particular para o universal, do indivíduo para a humanidade, do ser biológico para a Terra Gaia.
Author Archives: Eduardo Cardoso Braga
Environment, architecture, art and everyday life
“In ancient Greece, the area of the temples, music, epic poetry and tragedy were the property of all citizens and were part of their daily lives. (…) When life itself is stripped of all humanity and denatures the man as part of this environment, it also makes the behavior of men becoming inhuman and unnatural.”
Ambiente, arquitetura, arte e cotidianidade
“Na Grécia Antiga, o espaço dos templos, a música, a poesia épica e a tragédia eram propriedades de todos os cidadãos e faziam parte de seu cotidiano. (…) Quando a própria vida esta despojada de toda a humanidade e se desnaturaliza, o homem, como parte desse ambiente, também se comporta de forma antinatural e inumana.”
Art and autonomy: the decisive contribution of modernity
The concept of genius was first formulated by the Enlightenment and later developed in German Idealism. Its function was to explain the differential nature of art when compared to the world or nature. From its origins and development, this concept took two contradictory directions. On one side it was assumed irrationality linked to a power …
