Open AccessPopular Culture and High Art in the Work Of Oscar Niemeyer
Author(s) -
D. G. Underwood
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
anales del instituto de investigaciones estéticas/anales del instituto de investigaciones estéticas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1870-3062
pISSN - 0185-1276
DOI - 10.22201/iie.18703062e.1994.65.1705
Subject(s) - parade , elite , ideology , architecture , art , art history , politics , sociology , aesthetics , visual arts , law , political science
In his early domestic architecture, Oscar Niemeyer following the footstepsof Le Corbusier “monumentalized” the modernist and the Brazilian.Niemeyer’s later work is a more aggressive interactive process:the manipulation of popular traditions for the ideological purposes ofpopulist politics. Niemeyer has reshaped the ritual of the carnivalfestival by creating a unique space for its yearly celebration: the“Sambódromo.” The institutionalization of the samba parade into a fixedarchitectural contex implies a demagogic (elite-controlled) restructuringof popular ritual.