África – Arte Negra (1969/1970): anatomia de uma exposição

The exhibition Africa – Negro Art was held between the end of 1969 and the beginning of 1970 at the then Museum of Art and Archeology of the University of São Paulo and, later, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and in the Itamaraty Palace in Brasília. This is the second exhibition of African art at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa from Dakar in Brazil. Based on an iconographic corpus of 50 photographs from this exhibition, this article makes a study of the exhibition's form and structure, as well as its parts. Through visual history, the museology of the so-called “black arts” in Brazil during the first years of the dictatorship it’s highlight.