Publications
Magnolia Costa has a vast editorial production as author of books, articles, and translations, as well as editor of various publications about art.
Many contents available on this page are offered with free access, some of them in English. They're here for you to discover and enjoy!
Book: Nicolas Poussin: Idea of Landscape
Magnólia Costa
ISBN 13: 9788531417528
São Paulo: Edusp, 2020
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In this book, Magnólia Costa analyzes the landscape genre in Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) anchored in rhetorical precepts of the 16th and 17th Centuries, which guided debates in erudite circles of the time.
Poussin explored landscape in an innovative way while remaining true to established rules, which guaranteed him a prominent role in the development of this genre of painting at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris. For the author, a desire to do the best leads Poussin to understand the landscape scene as an elevated place, which the artist builds using the rhetorical model of the 16th century.
The analysis is complemented by reproduction of works by the artist and his contemporary painters and by numerous notes grouped in the final part of the volume containing excerpts in their original languages, translations and comments.
Article: “Matter and Sensitivity: Chardin According Diderot”
Eds.: Joaquim Braga and Fabiana Tamizari
ISBN: 978-989-54328-4-4
Coimbra: IEF-Universidade de Coimbra, coleção eQVODLIBET, 2020
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Diderotian philosophy entails rooting the possibilities of reason in an aesthetic web elaborated through sensitive relations of human beings with their cultural constructions. If there is a theoretical imperative to be taken from Diderot’s multifaceted work, it is what presupposes an epistemic reconciliation of philosophy with aesthetics, understood as a source of information on the nature of sensitivity and the nature of sensitive phenomena, as well as a reflective core where contents and concepts that escape deductive thinking are articulated.
Continuing this imperative and using philosophical and literary texts by this encyclopedist, the authors of these chapters show the various points of intercession between the philosopher’s thought and its material and sensitive dimensions, as well as its main consequences for the configuration of the forms of social organization.
A return to sensitivity promoted by Diderot means both an emphasis on emancipation of and by art and a critique of social ideals of his time and of modern society in general. The materialist assumptions of Diderotian philosophy, so often mistakenly dissected, are correlated with the reflexive and critical functions exercised by the inclusion of sensitivity in the ways of articulating subjective and intersubjective experiences. In the concept of matter there is the indelible mark of the concept of sensitivity or, if you prefer, the sensitive is theterminus a quoof the material’s intelligibility.
Article: Museum is the World
Eds.: Marjolein Cremer and Susanne Mors
ISBN/ EAN: 9789062820634
Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation, 2014
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Article published in “The Dwarfing of Europe?—A Dialogue between Brazil, India, China and Europe,” edited by European Cultural Foundation after the conference held in Amsterdam, where Magnólia Costa represented Brazil.
Southern Landscape, Brazilian Scene, and Museum Action
Eds.: François Mairesse et. al.
ISBN: 978-92-9012-413-9 Icofom Studies Series, vol. 43a Paris: International Committee for Museology/ Icom/ Unesco, 2015
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Article published s part of the “Icofom Studies” series, from a lecture at Icofom/Icom/Unesco International Symposium at Université de Paris I Sorbonne in June 2014