O Circo Chegou
Memória Social E Circularidade Cultural
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3073335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Rocha (0000-0002-1398-3742, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textos Escolhidos de Cultura e Arte Populares (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1980-3281 • E-ISSN: 1981-9935 |
| Publisher | Universidade de Estado do Rio de Janeiro (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.12957/tecap.2012.10261 |
| OpenAlex | W1988188508 |
| Language | EN |
In the past, the announcing of the arrival of a circus in small towns was done by clowns who, accompanied by a group of children, took to the streets chanting chulas. Circo, a work by artist Candido Portinari (1903-1962), depicts this arrival. And it is this ritual moment that calls us to reflect upon the cultural significance of the circus' magic, from the perspective of the child, starting at the process of cultural circularity between the scholarly and the popular in the historical context of Brazilian modernism. In the middle is the clown, a symbolic operator of this whole cultural process
Arts and Performance Studies · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Urban and sociocultural dynamics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |