Date of Award
Spring 5-2-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Harper Montgomery
Second Advisor
Wen-shing Chou
Third Advisor
Lynda Klich
Academic Program Adviser
Harper Montgomery
Abstract
“Modernism Unwoven: Art Deco, Brasilidade, and the Erasure of Regina Gomide Graz” explores the life and practice of the Brazilian artist Regina Gomide Graz, whose textile works contributed to introducing Art Deco to Brazil. Regina is associated with many of the events that marked Brazilian modernism in the 1920s and 1930s and was engaged with the concerns of her milieu, for instance, the synthesis of European artistic developments with themes regional to Brazil and the development of a national aesthetic identity. Despite this, her work has scarcely been studied. This thesis examines the sociocultural, economic, and personal conditions that led to the artist’s erasure and analyzes her unique approach to generating a specifically Brazilian visual language.
Recommended Citation
Oliver, Antonia Machado, "Modernism Unwoven: Art Deco, Brasilidade, and the Erasure of Regina Gomide Graz" (2025). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1320
