ENTRECRUZAMENTOS: HISTÓRIA INSTITUCIONAL DA ABEC E DOS SABERES DA ARTE FUNERÁRIA NO BRASIL

Abstract

Recovering the memory of the Brazilian Association of Cemetery Studies (ABEC), we demonstrate the presence and the growing insertion in the institution of art historians and related areas that researches cemeteries in the country. It is known that funerary art was a subject ignored by critics until the middle of the twentieth century, where it became recorded in cemeteries by some modernist artists. The communications of researchers at ABEC seek to prioritize the survey of the iconographic representations contained in this particular space and also to justify the preservation and communication of this type of artistic heritage. An entity of an interdisciplinary character such as ABEC contributes to the understanding of modern man's feelings of love and pain in the face of death, and also the need to highlight the cemetery as a place of "lived memory."