Popular culture and high art in the work of Oscar Niemeyer

• David Underwood ^[1]
  1. [1] Rutgers University

     Rutgers University

     City of New Brunswick, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, ISSN-e 0185-1276, Nº. 65, 1994, págs. 139-155
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In his early domestic architecture, Oscar Niemeyer following the footsteps of Le Corbusier “monumentalized” the modernist and the Brazilian. Niemeyer’s later work is a more aggressive interactive process: the manipulation of popular traditions for the ideological purposes of populist politics. Niemeyer has reshaped the ritual of the carnival festival by creating a unique space for its yearly celebration: the “Sambódromo.” The institutionalization of the samba parade into a fixed architectural contex implies a demagogic (elite-controlled) restructuring of popular ritual.