A Dialogic Pathway for the Reading of the Works of Rubens Gerchman

Abstract

Based on the concepts of dialogism and polyphony postulated by Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), this article investigates some of artist Rubens Gerchman’s works that integrate the Exhibition Estética do futebol e outras imagens [Aesthetics of Soccer and Other Images]. It aims to build a pathway that relates such works to other artistic and literary productions, both those of Gerchman and those of other artists. It uses dialogic discourse analysis as its methodological approach, which proposes a dialogue between different concrete utterances and the production of meanings generated by the interaction between socially and historically situated subjects.