Gloria Ferreira is an art critic based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Paulo Herkenhoff is an art critic, curator, and cultural director of the Museum of Art of Rio – MAR.

Gloria Ferreira is an art critic based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Paulo Herkenhoff is an art critic, curator, and cultural director of the Museum of Art of Rio – MAR.

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry  9
Acknowledgments / Jay A. Levenson and Sara Lookofsky  11
Essays
The Permanent Revolution of the Critic / Gloria Ferreira  14
A Strategic Universalist / Kaira M. Cabañas  23
Radical and Inclusive: Mário Pedrosa's Modernism / Adele Nelson  35
Naturally Modern: Mário Pedrosa and Architectural Criticism / Lauro Cavalcanti  43
A Revolution of Sensitivity / Catherine Bompuis  52
Mário Pedrosa's Somersault / Marcio Doctors  58
The Critical Exercise of Freedom (2013) / Dore Ashton  62
Mário Pedrosa: A Man without a Price (2001) / Aracy Amarai  65
Mário Pedrosa Today (2000) / Otilla Beatruz Fiori Arantes  68
Plates  73
Primary Documents
Translator's Notes / Stephen Berg  98
1. Theoretical and Aesthetic Speculations  101
Introduction / Gloria Ferreira  102
2. Cultural Politics and the Art System  139
Introduction / Izabela Pucu  140
3. History of Criticism  175
Introduction / Rodrigo Krul  176
4. Criticism of Criticism  203
Introduction / Izabela Pucu  204
5. Art Criticism  227
Introduction / Rodrigo Krul  228
6. Architectural Criticism  337
Introduction / Lauro Cavalcanti  338
7. A Singular Socialist  375
Introduction / Gloria Ferreira  376
8. Correspondence  403
Introduction / Isabela Pucu  404
References  439
Chronoology / Quito Pedrosa  440
Contributors  450
Index  453
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art  464