Gloria Ferreira is an art critic based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Paulo Herkenhoff is an art critic, curator, and cultural director of the Museum of Art of Rio – MAR.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry 9
Acknowledgments / Jay A. Levenson and Sara Lookofsky 11
Essays
The Permanent Revolution of the Critic / Gloria Ferreira 14
A Strategic Universalist / Kaira M. Cabañas 23
Radical and Inclusive: Mário Pedrosa's Modernism / Adele Nelson 35
Naturally Modern: Mário Pedrosa and Architectural Criticism / Lauro Cavalcanti 43
A Revolution of Sensitivity / Catherine Bompuis 52
Mário Pedrosa's Somersault / Marcio Doctors 58
The Critical Exercise of Freedom (2013) / Dore Ashton 62
Mário Pedrosa: A Man without a Price (2001) / Aracy Amarai 65
Mário Pedrosa Today (2000) / Otilla Beatruz Fiori Arantes 68
Plates 73
Primary Documents
Translator's Notes / Stephen Berg 98
1. Theoretical and Aesthetic Speculations 101
Introduction / Gloria Ferreira 102
2. Cultural Politics and the Art System 139
Introduction / Izabela Pucu 140
3. History of Criticism 175
Introduction / Rodrigo Krul 176
4. Criticism of Criticism 203
Introduction / Izabela Pucu 204
5. Art Criticism 227
Introduction / Rodrigo Krul 228
6. Architectural Criticism 337
Introduction / Lauro Cavalcanti 338
7. A Singular Socialist 375
Introduction / Gloria Ferreira 376
8. Correspondence 403
Introduction / Isabela Pucu 404
References 439
Chronoology / Quito Pedrosa 440
Contributors 450
Index 453
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art 464
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