Osório César: conexões entre psicologia, arte e educação (1920 – 1950)

Abstract

This research consists of an investigation on the trajectory and the textual production of the physician Osório Cesar, pointed as the precursor of the studies about the connections between art and madness in Brazil. The analysis dialogue with researchers aimed to understanding the intellectual and political action of education’s field, considering the most recent developments in cultural history and political history. Methodologically, it privileged the rebuilding of the sociability network and the incursions of Osório Cesar as a researcher of the medical sciences, as a developer and disseminator of the funda-mental principles for the understanding between art and madness and art therapy; as child education enthusiastic, at the time, classified as abnormal child´s and as formulator and publisher of propositions and political ideas. The sources have been selected in the research were newspaper texts, journals and book articles produced by the author or by his collaborators and opponents, records of public archives (particularly, those produced under the auspices of the Political and Social Order Department); in addition to of the theses and dissertations addressed with specific aspects of Osorio Cesar's life. The con-clusions reached allow us to affirm that Osório Cesar exercised a significant agency as an intellectual in the different arenas investigated and that its contribution to historical studies in education, anchored in the frontiers between psychology, psychiatry and ped-agogy, is relevant to the understanding of the scenario of constitution of the art-educa-tion in the early 20th century