"THE CHILDREN IN FRONT OF US": EDUCATION, ART AND POLITICS AT THE BRITISH SCHOOLCHILDREN’S DRAWINGS EXHIBITION (1941)

Abstract This article analyzes the British Children’s Drawings Exhibition, held at the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA) in Rio de Janeiro in 1941, as an effort to publicize British culture in the Americas in the context of World War II, but also as part of a series of educational initiatives involving art aimed at children and developed during the first half of the twentieth century. In order to think about children's art in a modern perspective, the dialogue with Touraine and Berman's reflections becomes relevant in an approach that privileges a closer lens in relation to the historical event, according to the scale games referred to by Lepetit, Gribaudi and Revel. As sources, we used newspaper articles and exhibition catalogs.