Rafael Cardoso (art historian)

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Rafael Cardoso
Born (1964-06-04) June 4, 1964 (age 59)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
NationalityBrazilian

Rafael Cardoso (born 4 June 1964) is a Brazilian art historian and writer. His published work includes numerous books and essays on the history of art and design in Brazil, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also published four works of fiction, including Entre as Mulheres (2007) which first brought him to the attention of an international audience, particularly after its translation into German as Sechzehn Frauen (2013). His novel, O Remanescente (2016) was published simultaneously in Brazil, by Companhia das Letras, and Germany, by S. Fischer.

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Early life and education

Rafael Cardoso Denis was born in Rio de Janeiro to a mixed cultural background. His father was a physician, born in France of Jewish German parents and immigrated to Brazil during the Second World War. [1] His mother comes from a well-known literary family in Minas Gerais, being the niece of renowned Brazilian writer Lúcio Cardoso, author of Crônica de Casa Assassinada (1959), and Maria Helena Cardoso, also a noted writer. When Cardoso was five, his parents moved to the United States, and he was brought up mainly in Virginia. He attended college at the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1985. He returned to Brazil shortly thereafter and obtained an MA in art history from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, going on to do a PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, in London, from 1991 to 1995. [2]

Career

Cardoso's first books of fiction and non-fiction appeared in 2000, and he has continually published both, since then. His first notable success was the design history textbook Uma Introdução à História do Design, now in its third edition and widely used in Brazilian universities. [3] He is well established as a historian of art and design in Brazil, having authored numerous books and hundreds of essays and articles, as well as editing and translating works by John Ruskin and Vilém Flusser. [4] [5] In 2018, his book A arte brasileira em 25 quadros was made into a six-part series for Brazilian television channel Arte 1. [6] His latest book Modernity in Black and White has been acclaimed as a groundbreaking account of modern art and modernism in Brazil. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] It was awarded the 2021 Roberto Reis book award by the Brazilian Studies Association BRASA. [14]

With O Remanescente, Cardoso brought his fiction and non-fiction writing together for the first time. The book is a historical novel, based on true facts, and tells the story of his father's family's flight from Germany in the 1930s, their exile in France and eventual refuge in Brazil. [15] [16] The main character is the author's great-grandfather, Hugo Simon, (wrong link) a banker, socialist politician and art collector in Berlin, during the Weimar Republic, where he was a prominent cultural figure and briefly Minister of Finance of Prussia after the German Revolution of 1918-19. [17] [18] [19] In 2021, Cardoso helped create the Hugo Simon Foundation, based in Seelow, Brandenburg, and currently serves as chair of its advisory board. [20]

Cardoso pursued a full-time academic career from 1996 to 2012, working successively as a professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, where he continues to serve as a member of the postgraduate faculty in art history. He has also held temporary teaching or research positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Hamburg, Getty Research Institute, Institut national d'histoire de l'art and Yale University. He is a member of Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte, PEN Berlin, and the German section of Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art. Between 2020 and 2023, he served as chair of AICA International's committee on censorship and freedom of expression. [21] He has been appointed to the Aby Warburg Guest Professorship for 2024. [22]

Cardoso is also known for his work as a curator, having staged exhibitions of Brazilian art, both historical and contemporary. Among the major exhibitions he curated are: O olhar germânico na gênese do Brasil (Museu Imperial, Petrópolis, 2022), Do Valongo à Favela: Imaginário e Periferia (Museu de Arte do Rio, 2014), Rio de Imagens: uma Paisagem em Construção (Museu de Arte do Rio, 2013), From the Margin to the Edge: Brazilian Art and Design in the 21st Century (Somerset House, London, 2012) and Eliseu Visconti: a Modernidade Antecipada (Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2011). [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] He has also written song lyrics, including the 1988 hit Vamos Dançar for Ed Motta & Conexão Japeri, and is co-author of the screenplay for the feature-length film Maresia (2016), together with director Marcos Guttmann and screenwriter Melanie Dimantas. [28] He writes regularly for the Brazilian and international press.

Bibliography

Fiction

• O Remanescente (2016) [German edition, Das Vermächtnis der Seidenraupen, S. Fischer Verlag, 2016; Dutch edition, De vlucht van de familie Simon, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2017; Portuguese edition, O Remanescente, Compasso dos Ventos, 2018] ISBN   9788535928136
• Entre as Mulheres (2007) [German edition, Sechzehn Frauen: Geschichten aus Rio, S. Fischer Verlag, 2013; Spanish edition, Dieciséis Mujeres, Alevosia, 2013] ISBN   9788501077011
• Controle Remoto (2002) ISBN   8501063185
• A Maneira Negra (2000) [Italian edition, Il falsario di Rio, Fabula, 2008] ISBN   8501057681

Non-Fiction

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  3. ↑ Laus, Egeu. "Rafael Cardoso: Entre as Mulheres" . Retrieved 14 July 2013.
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  5. ↑ "Currículo Lattes Rafael Cardoso Denis" . Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Arte Brasileira Quadro a Quadro estreia no Arte 1" . Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Sousa Gabriel, Ruan de (24 April 2021). "Mito do Brasil brasileiro é opressor, diz Rafael Cardoso, estudioso do modernismo" . Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  8. ↑ Coelho, João Marcos. "Novo livro de Rafael Cardoso trata o modernismo de 1922 sem elitismos" . Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  9. ↑ Moser, Benjamin. "The Myth of 1922" . Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  10. ↑ "'A Semana não precisa ser atacada nem defendida, precisa ser compreendida', analisa Rafael Cardoso, autor do livro 'Modernidade em Preto e Branco'" . Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  11. ↑ Duarte, Pedro. "'Modernidade em Preto e Branco' amplia Semana de 22 com mais Carnaval" . Retrieved 22 September 2022.
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  16. ↑ Albuquerque, Carlos. "Em "O remanescente", autor carioca faz pazes com Alemanha". Deutsche Welle . Retrieved 27 February 2017.
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  20. ↑ "Advisory Board" . Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  21. ↑ "Censorship and freedom of expression committee" . Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  22. ↑ "Warburg Professur" . Retrieved 19 February 2024.
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