PEDRO HENRIQUE MARQUES SILVA MAUAD

My doctoral research seeks to investigate the paradigmatic connections between art and politics at the dawn of artistic modernity, focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries. The aim is to explore how these relationships help to elucidate Hegel's concept of effectivity (Wirklichkeit) and its implications for political and aesthetic philosophy. The research draws on Hegel's concepts and diagnoses regarding the history of art as an analytical tool to examine the transition of art from a domain of the aristocracy and the Church to a bourgeois cultural expression. In this context, I investigate how the French Revolution and the rise of the bourgeoisie reshaped the perception of art, making it both an autonomous practice and one intrinsically tied to its socio-historical milieu. Through the lenses of Hegel and Rancière, the study aims to analyze how modern arts—particularly the novels of Stendhal and Flaubert and the paintings of Courbet and Manet—express emerging social contradictions and realities. It also examines how these works deepen a transformation in the arts that Hegel identified as early as Don Quixote by Cervantes and Dutch genre painting.