Scenario of research in Visual Arts and the inter-relations with inclusion: A look in the scientific production of the anpad 2004-2011 proceedings

Abstract

This article is a continuum of the research that started to be developed in 2009 and was expanded in 2011. It aims to map and to analyze the scenario of the research in Visual Arts, and the inter-relation with the social inclusion. The quantitative and qualitative approach used was based on the narratives and discourses within the work published in the Proceedings of the National Meeting of Researchers in Arts (Encontro Nacional dos Pesquisadores em Artes Plásti- cas – ANPAP). To identify and analyze the inter-relations of Visual Arts with the inclusion, it was developed a documental analysis of the issues of ANPAP Proceedings, from 2004 to 2011, resulting in an amount of 229 productions. We found that the scientific production is increasing every year. However, it seems that it was just from the year 2006 that there has been an increasing intensity of the research on Visual Arts, although tenuously inter-related to the social inclusion. From this analysis we can identify concepts, trends, and diversity of research problems on the inter-relation of the Visual Arts and Inclusion. And it can be inferred that in the last eight years, there was a deeper understanding in relation to inclusive conceptions and practices, even being still tenuous, compared to the entire amount of scientific research on the Visual Arts.