Open AccessLetter from Brazil
Author(s) -
Viviana Pozzoli
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
modos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2526-2963
DOI - 10.20396/modos.v5i3.8666881
Subject(s) - publishing , perspective (graphical) , centrality , humanities , project commissioning , art , media studies , history , art history , advertising , sociology , visual arts , literature , mathematics , combinatorics , business
The research addresses a previously unknown segment of the journalist and art dealer Pietro Maria Bardi’s trajectory by highlighting the centrality of the publishing issue in his activity as an organizer of artistic culture. Starting from the letters exchanged with the publisher Valentino Bompiani from 1946 – date of Bardi’s arrival to Brazil, together with Lina Bo – to the early 1950s, the paper traces the common projects, between Italy and South America, in a transnational perspective, thus opening new insights into Bardi’s role within the coeval illustrated art publishing industry and better focusing the planning of his early Brazilian years at the head of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo’s modernist project.