Arte, ensino e Academia

"The work brings together research that the author has been developing for over twenty years about the Academy of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro. It discusses the institution's trajectory, its successes and failures, in contrast to a society that little values the visual arts. It calls into question academic theory and practice, and, without restricting itself to the Rio Academy, expands the theme to the achievements and dilemmas of Brazilian art at the time and even later, in Modernism. It debates the models of art historiography - not only those that were implicit in the Academy's activities, but also those that followed it -, contributing to the deepening of the current discussion of the discipline of Art History."--