Ostrander, Dana

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Dana Ostrander

Dana Ostrander is assistant curator of modern art at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis.

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8. Stigmatic Abstraction: Geraldo de Barros at Engenho de Dentro

Dana Ostrander

Modernism, Art, Therapy

By the time a young Geraldo de Barros joined the São Paulo–based Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante (FCCB) in May 1949, the amateur photography club had existed for ten years. A relative latecomer with no previous photographic training, Barros earned further outsider status within the club for his association with patients at a psychiatric hospital in the Engenho de Dentro neighborhood of...

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Dana Ostrander

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32153

Chapter subject tags:Barros, Geraldo de, 1923-1998Modernism (Art)--BrazilArt therapy--BrazilPsychiatric hospital patientsPhotography--Latin America--20th centuryHospital patients as artistsEngenho de Dentro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)