This granite: the materiality as a historiographical review strategy

Abstract

This article focuses its debate on the concept of “materiality”, understanding it as a unique strategy for historiographical review, in the context of art history. It starts with contemporary criticism and debates concerning the removal of public monuments, where Victor Brecheret's Monumento às Bandeiras is taken as a singular work to problematize the issue. In this perspective, the public debate and its dissemination strategies are revisited, to recognize that the granite - the material that makes up the monument itself - can be read as a manifestation that carries within it an important possibility of historiographical revision.