Eclecticism in Brazilian architecture: a scenery for modernization

Authors

  • Annateresa Fabris Universidade de São Paulo; ECA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-47141993000100011

Keywords:

Eclecticism, Eclecticism and architecture (Brazil), modernity, modernization

Abstract

The author enhances the social and cultural meaning of Eclecticism, beyond the domain of Architecture and the levei of stylistic phenomena. This frame of reference allows her to understand in a historical key its scenographical tendencies and the taste for magnificence, expressiveness and monumentality, as well as its links with the pasto Some specific features of Brazilian Eclecticism are then described, as its anti-colonialistic bias. Neoclassical movement is included as a late manifestation of Eclecticism which survives until the establishment of a new kind of relationship with modernity - mediated by technology.

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Published

1993-01-01

Issue

Section

Material Culture Studies

How to Cite

FABRIS, Annateresa. Eclecticism in Brazilian architecture: a scenery for modernization . Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 1, n. 1, p. 131–143, 1993. DOI: 10.1590/S0101-47141993000100011. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/5279.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.