1. Foreign Views Compared to human age, research in arts, in Brazil, is in its childhood. This comparison takes into account the relative maturity achieved in other areas of research, especially notorious from the experimentalism, which propelled modern sciences. In the field of human sciences, such advancement is significant, and, at its inner, artistic investigations begin its first steps. In other ages, to arts was also given investigation. They were interpreted under the perspective of

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... sophy or theology, seeking to understand the artistic phenomenon as an integral part of complex systems and the consolidation of thought. Art itself was not being questioned, but rather its framing into a greater set of ideas, forming a kind of totality to view the place for each human activity, the practical, theoretical and poetic in the general entirety of philosophical and/or theological systems. It had to do, therefore, with the philosophies of art and not artistic investigation per se. In fact, Aesthetics, while a philosophical discipline, entered late into the panorama of philosophical knowledge, and, even so, under the presupposition of investigating artistic beauty, basing itself on the judgment of taste. In other words, the constitution of the arts as an object and specific problem of scientific investigation is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the range of human sciences, she is the youngest sibling. The immediate implication of this infancy is the absence of consolidated theories and methods to support such an action. Other fields of knowledge in the human sciences already have theoretical approaches and sustainable methodologies. Art researchers resort to "foreign" theories, adapting and mutilating them, but also amplifying and modifying their range and field of action. From another