Brasília: construção modernizante da imagem do poder

• Autor(a) principal: Prado, Eugênio Pacceli Areias do
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3376
• topic: Manchete (Revista); O Cruzeiro (Revista); Nacional-desenvolvimentismo; Fotografia; National-development; Photograph; Modernism; História; Nacionalismo; Modernismo; Brasília (DF); 93/99

Taking the period of Juscelino Kubtscheck government, from 1956 to 1961, the themes Brasília and national-development are worked on as part of the economic, cultural, politic and social modernizing process in Brazil. To accomplish this task a critical bibliographical survey is presented about nationalism, modernism, national-development, the history surrounding the ideas about Brazil’s Federal Capital change and the projects of capitals in the world and in Brazil that were accomplished before Brasilia’s project. The symbolization of the power graphically expressed in the capitals’ urban plans was investigated to determine similarities and differences among them and the relations with historic-politicalaesthetical contexts. The position of two weekly printed media, the magazines O Cruzeiro and Manchete, were investigated, though the analysis of the articles and the photographs about those themes, to determinate their possible engagement in the popularization of the official speech. Starting from the hypotheses that Brasília was the symbol for the whole national-development project, we investigated the role of those printed media in the process of shaping a social consensus about the building and changing of the capital, since just 21% of the population was pro-Brasilia in January, 1958 while this percentage rose to 74% in March, 1960. It is shown that Brasília is the result of the intertwining of those three components: the nationalistic thought, the national-development ideology and the modernist aesthetic. The interpretation of Brasilia as only a modernist city is an oversimplification since it unites tradition and modernism in its urban plan. There was a clearly engagement of the printed media both in the showing off of the Brasilia project and the National-development ideology as in the establishment of a specific symbolization for that Brazilian socio-economical and cultural situation.