Vera Beatriz Siqueira
PhD in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1999), Master's degree in Social History of Culture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1993) and graduate degree in History from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1983). She is an associate professor and pro-scientist at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, where she served as vice-director of the Institute of Arts, coordinator of the Graduate Program in Arts and the Bachelor's Degree in History of Art. Her research in Art History focuses on the relationship between art and institutionalization processes, with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art, especially in Brazil. She is the author of the books Wanda Pimentel (Silvia Roesler/Prefeitura do Rio, 2012), Measuring of Expression: Goeldi, Segall, Iberê (Imprensa Oficial SP/Fundação Iberê Camargo, 2010), Iberê Camargo (Cosac Naify, 2009), Burle Marx ( Cosac Naify, 2001 and 2nd edition in 2009) and Milton Dacosta (S. Roesler Edições de Arte, 2005), among others, in addition to several articles in books and magazines. She co-organized the books History of Art: Contemporary Essays (EdUerj, 2011), History of Art: Listening (Art-Uerj, 2011) and History of Art: Connections (EdUerj, 2014). She has curated exhibitions at the Iberê Camargo Foundation (Porto Alegre), Lasar Segall Museum (São Paulo), Castro Maya and Paço Imperial Museums (Rio de Janeiro). She was a “Young Scientist of Our State” (Faperj) between 2008 and 2011. She has been a CNPq researcher since 2008. From September to December 2012 and between January and March 2020 she was a visiting researcher (guest scholar) at the Getty Research Institute, in Los Angeles, USA. Between 2016 and 2017, she carried out a postdoctoral internship at the Graduate Program in Social History at PUC-Rio. As of 2018, she assumed the position of Arts Coordinator of Arts and member of the Technical Scientific Council for Higher Education (CTC-ES) at Capes / Ministry of Education.
Research project
Le Louvre. Illustration by Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Quelques visages de Paris. Paris: Imprimerie Juan Dura, 1925.
Title
The modern “other”
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Reception
Description
This project intends to reflect on the possibility of formulating a history of modern art in Brazil, seeking to work on the following objectives:
1. to discuss the main historiographic proposals;
2. to develop operative and critical concepts that allow the construction of significant historical series for the understanding of modern art in Brazil, capable of challenging traditional chronological frameworks;
3. to build a repertoire of artists and works, whose relationships are based on poetic and historical affinities and/or divergences not foreseen in the more traditional schemes of our history of modern art;
4. to create a permanent space for debate and the production of knowledge on the issue of the modern in Brazil, bringing together researchers from different institutions, in addition to undergraduate and graduate students.
The central questions will be: how to build a history of modern art in Brazil? What works, artists and issues to discuss? How to escape the more traditional views on Brazilian modernism? How to escape the pitfalls of comparing local and international works? What conceptual and poetic premises should be adopted along this route? What historical or chronological milestones to adopt?