Internacionalização da Arquitetura e da Crítica de Arte: Sérgio Milliet

Abstract

One of the leading exponents of cultural criticism in Brazil was São Paulo- -born Sergio Milliet (1898-1966), one the most “internationalized” of Brazilian intellectuals. His production, not only as a critic, but also as a translator, poet, painter, thinker and essayist, as well as his institutional work, notably as director of the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library, place him in the foreground of the cultural, political and institutional life of his country. Still very young, he studied and worked in Switzerland in the early decades of the twentieth century among international personalities, but returned in time to participate in the Art Week of 1922 in São Paulo. He was a veritable man-bridge between European and Brazilian cultures. Attentive to the national and international cultural life of his time, he worked as a transcultural “passeur”, as evidenced by the ten volumes of his Critical Diary and numerous notable translations.