Rafael Cardoso

Rafael Cardoso was born on the 4^th June 1964; he is an Brazilian writer and a an art historian. He has published many books and essays on the history of art and design in the country and his works are more focused on the era of the country between the year 1840 and 1930. He has published the total of 3 wokrd of fiction with Entre as Mulheres of the year 2007 included.

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Early Life and Education

Rafael Cardoso Denis was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro to a mixed cultural background; the father was a physician born in France by German parents and moved to Brazil at the time of the World War II. His mother from a popular literary family in Minas Gerais.

At the age of 5, Rafael Cardoso’s parents moved to the United States and it was in the city of Virginia that he was brought up. He attended his college at the Johns Hopkins University in the city of Baltimore and then he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in the year 1985. He moved back to Brazil sometimes after his graduation and got his MA in art history from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and went oin the art history at the n to get his Ph.D Courtauld Institute of Art in the city of London in England from the year 1991 to the year 1995.

Career

Rafael Cardoso’s first books of fiction and non-fiction came out in the year 2000 and continually, he published both together since that year. His first popular success was the history textbook that he designed called Uma Introdução à História do Design, which is widely used in the universities of the country and is in its 3^rd edition.

Rafael Cardoso is well known as an art historian and for his design in the country and he has written half a dozen books and about a hundred essays and articles for the dailies and weeklies of the country. He is also an editor and a translator. He worked as a professor in the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and in the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. His fame has increased in the country as a curator since the year 2007, he has staged some exhibition in the arts of the country, both contemporary and historically.

Bibliography

Fiction

Ø  Entre as Mulheres (2007) [German edition, Sechzehn Frauen: Geschichten aus Rio, S. Fischer Verlag, 2013; Spanish edition, Dieciséis Mujeres, Alevosia, 2013]

Ø  Controle Remoto (2002)

Ø  A Maneira Negra (2000) [Italian edition, Il falsario di Rio, Fabula, 2008]

Non-Fiction

Ø  Design para um Mundo Complexo (2012)

Ø  Impresso no Brasil, 1808-1930: Destaques da História Gráfica no Acervo da Biblioteca Nacional (2009)

Ø  Marcas do Progresso: Consumo e Design no Brasil do Século XIX (2009) [co-authored w/ Cláudia Beatriz Heynemann & Maria do Carmo Teixeira Rainho]

Ø  A Arte Brasileira em 25 Quadros (1790-1930) (2008)

Ø  O Design Brasileiro antes do Design: Aspectos da História Gráfica, 1870-1960 (2005)

Ø  Uma Introdução à História do Design (2000)

Ø  Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century (2000) [co-edited w/Colin Trodd]