Marcelo Siqueira Ridenti

Artistas e intelectuais no Brasil pós-1960

This article is about the progress of Brazilian left wing intellectuals, especially the artists, after the 1960s. In it, we develop the hypothesis of the existence of a structure of feelings of revolutionary Brazilianism, strong until 1968, as an answer to changes in social organization, and how it tended to become de-structured when the whole of society went in another direction. The works by the artists who shared this structure of feelings shared something familiar but there was no total identity among them; at times, they were rivals. The process of conservative modernization of society would professionally institutionalize the artistic and intellectual milieu, keeping it apart from the commitment with critical causes of order. The historical constraints in which certain structures of feelings bore fruit dried up, and, many times, those feelings were transformed into an ideology that legitimized the Brazilian cultural industry.

INTELECTUAIS E ROMANTISMO REVOLUCIONÁRIO

O artigo pondera sobre a trajetoria de setores da intelectualidade brasileira dita de esquerda, a partir dos anos 60, marcados pelo romantismo revolucionario. Porem, com o avanco desigual e combinado do capitalismo, viriam a impor-se a atomizacao reificada da sociedade do espetaculo e o esvaziamento do ensaio geral de socializacao da cultura. Esse processo tenderia a institucionalizar profissionalmente o meio intelectual e a afasta-lo do compromisso com as causas criticas da ordem