Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: EMMANOEL ALEXANDRE DA SILVA

THE “BOYS FROM RECIFE” : THE LOOK OF ABELARD OF THE HOUR ON THE ABANDONMENT OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS (1960-1962)

Abelardo da Hora. Boys from Recife. Social inequality.

The objective of this research is to analyze the scenario of social vulnerability that children and adolescents faced in Recife, in 1962, based on the production of the artist Abelardo da Hora and his series “Meninos do Recife”. To this end, the social, urban, modern and artistic scene of the city of Recife will first be contextualized. Next, the political, cultural and professional trajectory of the artist will be described and his series will be demonstrated, as well as the approaches to the sources and methods of this research. Finally, analyzes will be made of the selected engravings that denounce the social ills of the city of Recife, especially the relationship of occupation, strategy, strategies and resistance of street children. In this sense, the engravings will be specific based on their symbolic and historical dimension and how they build historical consciousness based on an aesthetic-political education (GOMES, 2019). Thus, based on the relationship between history, art and politics, the dissertation operates from the History of Childhood, bringing a non-hegemonic or adult-centric perspective of being and experiencing childhood portrayed in Abelardo da Hora's paintings.