Angels and legs: a “circus girl” in the Brazilian artistic imagination

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  • Gilmar Rocha (UFF, Brasil) Universidade Federal Fluminense

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https://doi.org/10.5216/vis.v14i1.35555

Abstract

Wherever they go the circus and circus arts have always captured the attention of people in small and large cities. Artists were not indifferent to this influence; it is what reveals the heterogeneous production of circus representations in the field of literature, the visual arts, music etc. This can be understood as a short essay since it is a brief incursion into the Brazilian artistic imagination which presents the first reflections regarding the female circus performer, here, poetically christened, as a "circus girl". It is a symbolic analysis inspired on Nietzsche’s tragic philosophy.

Keywords: Circus, imagination, “circus girl”

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Author Biography

Gilmar Rocha (UFF, Brasil), Universidade Federal Fluminense

Doutor em Antropologia Cultural (IFCS-UFRJ)

Prof. Departamento de Artes e Estudos Culturais (RAE) e do Programa Pos Graduação Cultura e Territorialidades (PPCULT) da Unversidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

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Published

2016-08-30

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ROCHA (UFF, BRASIL), G. Angels and legs: a “circus girl” in the Brazilian artistic imagination. Visualidades, Goiânia, v. 14, n. 1, 2016. DOI: 10.5216/vis.v14i1.35555. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/VISUAL/article/view/35555. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2016): Dossiê: Encontros com Imagens, Pesquisa e Educação

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Articles

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