Uma trajetória da xilogravura no Ceará

Abstract

This paper studies the trajectory of the woodcut in Ceará, analyzing how its development occurred in its different manifestations: illustration, facing the commercial segment and popular-literature booklets (cordel); art, with the variation in the expanded field. The time frame is delimited to the period between 1930 and 2010, covering geographically only Cariri and Fortaleza, for they are the ones with the most significant works in this strand, in Ceará artistic context. In conducting this research, we used a socio-historical approach, based on the concepts of Cultural History, by which we examined the woodcut directed productions for: labels, popular-literature booklet covers, the sacred way, albums, the life of religious, outlaws and artists. We also investigated the importance of the development of the printer.s workshops in the development of popular-literature booklets. This study excelled also the contribution of the Art Museum of the Federal University of Ceará, to the preservation, dissemination, education and movement resumed production of engraving art in Fortaleza, in the 1990s, and the set up of its significant collection. It was considered important to highlight the inclusion of the woodcut as a discipline on curricular institutions of higher education of Visual Arts, in Fortaleza, and changes occurring in the aesthetic and artistic conceptions, which have culminated in expanding the field of engraving. Finally, we analyze the woodcuts of ten artists belonging to the two focused areas, providing the perception of differences and similarities between their productions.