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Rafael Cardoso

Author

Translator

Rafael Cardoso, 2017
© Patricia Breves

Profile

Born: 4.6.1964
Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro
Country of birth: Brazil
Lives in: Berlin, Friedrichshain


Source language: Portuguese, English, French
Target language: Portuguese, English
Working language: Portuguese, English

Vita

Rafael Cardoso is a writer and art historian. His works of fiction include O Remanescente (2016), Entre as Mulheres (2007), Controle Remoto (2002) and A Maneira Negra (2000), all originally published in Brazil, and subsequently translated into German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian. In non-fiction, he is author or co-author of several books on the history of art and design, as well as numerous scholarly articles and essays, particularly on Brazilian art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has worked extensively as a curator and also as a translator. He holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and is associated with the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, but presently lives in Berlin.

Awards

Fellowships and grants
2015  Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris, France), visiting researcher
2015  Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, California, USA), guest scholar
April - June2013 - 2015  S. Fischer Stiftung (Berlin, Germany), writing grant
2007  Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), research fellow
2000  Yale University (New Haven, USA), Yale Center for British Art, visiting fellow
1996-1998  CNPq – Brazilian National Research Council, post-doctoral research grant
1991-1995  CAPES – Brazilian Ministry of Education, doctoral research grant

Awards:
2005  Best Book Award, Museu da Casa Brasileira, São Paulo

Work

Publications in german

Publications in original language

O Remanescente

Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, 2016 Novel

Design para um mundo complexo

Cosac Naify, São Paulo, 2012 theory of design

Marcas do progresso: Consumo e design no Brasil do século XIX

Arquivo Nacional / Mauad X, Rio de Janeiro, 2009 Art History

Entre as mulheres

Record, Rio de Janeiro, 2007 A novel in short stories

Controle remoto

Record, Rio de Janeiro, 2002 Novel

Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century

Manchester University Press & Rutgers University Press, Manchester & New Brunswick, 2000 Art History

Do Valongo à Favela: Imaginário e periferia

Museu de Arte do Rio / Instituto Odeon, Rio de Janeiro, 2015 Art and Art History

Impresso no Brasil, 1808-1930: Destaques da história gráfica no acervo da Biblioteca Nacional

Verso Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, 2009 Art History

A arte brasileira em 25 quadros (1790-1930)

Record, Rio de Janeiro, 2008 Art History

O design brasileiro antes do design: Aspectos da história gráfica, 1870-1960

Cosac Naify, São Paulo, 2005 Art History

A maneira negra

Record, Rio de Janeiro, 2000 two novelettes

Uma introdução à história do design

Blücher, São Paulo, 2000 Art History

Translated publications

John Ruskin, A economia política da arte

Record, Rio de Janeiro, 2004 Art & Art History

Editorship

Vilém Flusser. O mundo codificado: Por uma filosofia do design e da comunicação

Cosac Naify, São Paulo, 2007 theory of design