Abstract

MAGALHAES, Ana Gonçalves. Notes for a reflection on the relationship between Avant-Garde and art of the unconscious. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.2, pp. 137-148. ISSN 0486-641X.

This article aims at offering a panorama of the relationship between modern art and psychoanalysis from some precise examples, comparing the situation in Europe during the Avant-Garde period with the beginning of the debate on modern art in Brazil - with Anita Malfatti's exhibition in 1917, which united the critics of Modernism and led to the organization of the Modern Art Week, in 1922. In the Anita/Monteiro Lobato episode, psychoanalytical terms in vogue by international art critique, which were adopted by Monteiro Lobato in his aggressive review of Malfatti's exhibition, are pointed out. Finally, we have outlined the fact that Avant-Garde artistic language has been, since its very beginning, associated to the art of the unconscious, which accounts for its initial revolutionary traits, its condemnation by totalitarian regimes in interwar Europe, and its redemption after World War II.

Keywords : modern art; avant-garde; art of the unconscious; brazilian modernism.

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