ABSTRACT
Considering the cases of European artists and architects who immigrated to Brazil in the post-war period and who have not yet been thoroughly studied, and the themes that took hold in that period, such as the ‘Synthesis of the arts’, this introduction presents these two subjects and shows how the book, starting from the intersection between them, will investigate a selection of works by Italian artists, architects, and art critic who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, namely Bramante Buffoni, Roberto Sambonet, Lina Bo Bardi, Giancarlo Palanti, and Pietro Maria Bardi. Although foreigners, all of them were engaged in the production of a Brazilian art, architecture, and design in a production marked by the intertwining of the disciplines. With discoveries in primary and secondary sources, found in Brazil and Italy, it intends to understand the nature and meaning of this experience. The introduction also offers an overview of the research on the subject, the discoveries presented in the book, the organization of the chapters, its approach and hypotheses, among which that which claims the relationship between the arts made the relationship between cultures more evident and this was a hybridized production with the dilemmas of Brazilian culture until becoming part of it.
