Luiz Renato Martins
Luiz Renato Martins (São Paulo, 1953) is an historian who works as a researcher and a PhD supervisor in the doctoral programs of Visual Arts and Economic History at the University of São Paulo. He is the author of The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil (Historical Materialism Book Series at Haymarket Books, 2019) and The Conspiracy of Modern Art (also from the Historical Materialism Book Series at Haymarket Books, 2018) and has lectured at universities in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Spain, France, UK and USA.
Dias devised an aggressive appropriation: he operated a “kidnapping.” Therefore, the struggle was transferred to another terrain. The nationalist combative strategy was replaced with an international one.