Letter to the Editor

Letter to the editor regarding Professor Caroline A. Jones’s article “Anthropophagy in São Paulo’s Cold War”, published in ARTMargins,  2:1 and the author’s response. 

Mr. Sven Spieker
Editor
ARTmargins

Dear Mr. Spieker,

I am writing regarding Professor Caroline Jones’s article “Anthropophagy in São Paulo’s Cold War”, published in ARTmargins, volume 2, number 1. As a scholar working on the history of art in Brazil, I read the article with interest, and found it problematic in several ways.

The author argues that she does not “question existing periodizations or canons of Brazilian art.” This is legitimate enough; the problem, … Read more