Coleção Recôncavo: aspectos da cultura baiana através da (re)construção de Carybé e seus colaboradores

Abstract

This research has as main objective to understand, through the analysis of the Coleção Recôncavo, the representation of Carybé, Argentine plastic artist, and his collaborators for the construction of aspects of the culture present in the Recôncavo Baiano. The Collection, launched in 1951, consists of 10 issues, entitled: Pesca de Xaréu, Pelourinho, Jogo da capoeira, Feira de Água de Meninos, Festa do Bonfim, Conceição da Praia, Festa de Yemanjá, Rampa do Mercado, Temas de Candomblé and Orixás. Based on the analysis of the drawings and introductory texts that make up the work, we will seek to reflect on the image of Bahia that was built by this group in the early 1950s. To understand the representations, we will take into account the context and the relationships established by the author. We will consider the folklorist discourse and the economic changes that the Recôncavo Baiano region went through during the first half of the 20th century. The concepts of representation, materiality and web are used throughout the work to understand the ideas, memories, abstractions that permeate the Coleção Recôncavo. The codes contained in the representations are linked to social conceptions and gain meaning by the different actors and places where they circulate.