Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni

Biography

Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni is a professor at the Brazilian Studies Institute at the University of São Paulo. In 2004 she obtained a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and in 2002 a Sandwich Doctorate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is Post-Doctoral in History of Art at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (2016-17). She is also an associate researcher at EFISAL-CRAL (EHESS - Paris) and collaborator of the program "Aesthetics and history of art" (MAC-USP). In 2013, she was a visiting professor at the Instituto de Estetica y Historia del Arte - UNAM (Mexico) and in 2016 she was a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (LABEX-ARTLAS). These studies focus on the sociology of art, especially on the relationship between art and gender; Academicism and Brazilian modernism. She was curator of the exhibition "Women artists: the pioneers (1880-1930)" in 2015 at the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo.

Title of the project

Women in the vanguard: the trajectories of consecration (a comparative analysis between France and Brazil)

Keywords

Sociology of art, social history of art, gender and art, modernism

Selected recent publications:

Books and book chapters:

►Simioni, Ana Paula C. Des diasporas du moderne. Les artistes brésiliens à Paris dans les années 1920. In: Quemin, Alain; Villas-Boas, Glaucia. (Org.). ART ET SOCIÉTÉ Recherches récentes et regards croisés, Brésil/France. 1ed.Marseille: Open Edition, 2016, v. 1

►Mulheres Artistas: as Pioneiras (1880-1930). São Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.

►Simioni, Ana Paula C. Modernismo no Brasil: campo de disputas. In: Barcinski, Fabiana Werneck. (Org.). Sobre Arte Brasileira: da Pré-História aos Anos 1960. 1ed.São Paulo: Martins Fontes/ SESC, 2015, v. 1, p. 232-263.

►Simioni, Ana Paula Cavalcanti; DOROTINSKY, D. (Org.) ; De Lucca, Maira (Org.) . Femmes Créateurs en Amérique Latine. 5. ed. Paris: Artelogie-EHESS-CRAL, 2013. v. 1. 0000p

►Cadernos de Desenho. Anita Malfatti (em co-autoria com Ana Paula C. Lima e Lygia Elluf). Campinas: Ed da Unicamp/IMESP, 2011.

►Profissão artista: pintoras e escultoras acadêmicas brasileiras. São Paulo: EDUSP/FAPESP, 2008

Articles:

►Les transferts de « l'art total » de la Suisse au Brésil : une modernisation très particulière. ARTL@s Bulletin, v. 5, p. 48-61, 2016.

►Simioni, Ana Paula C.; Fetter, Bruna . BRAZILIAN FEMALE ARTISTS AND THE MARKET: a very unique encounter. Novos estudos CEBRAP (Online), v. 105, p. 241-255, 2016

►« Les portraits de l'Impératrice. Genre et politique dans la peinture d'histoire du Brésil ». Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, Paris, EHESS,  v. 2014-1, p. si-si, 2014 (online)

►« O Auto-Retrato Feminino no Brasil Oitocentista: Abigail de Andrade e os Impasses da Representação”. Caiana. Revista del Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual, Buenos Aires, n. 3, p. 00-11 (online)

►Simioni, Ana Paula Cavalcanti; STUMPF, L. . O Moderno antes do Modernismo: paradoxos da pintura brasileira no nascimento da República. Teresa (USP), v. 14, p. 111-130,

►Art et genre au Brèsil au XIXème siècle;  Opus, sociologie de l´Art (dossier Arts Visuels au Brèsil, Alain Quemin org), Ed Harmattan, Paris (june).

►“Modernisme au Brèsil”, In: Perspective, revue de l´art (dossier Histoire de l´art  au Brèsil), Institut National d´Histoire de l´Art, Paris, (December).