As ilustrações de jornais diários impressos: explorando fronteiras entre jornalismo, produção e arte

Abstract

This research presents illustrations as a borderline activity situated between artistic and journalistic conceptions. It approaches concepts pertaining to theories connected to journalism, aesthetics and art history within the theoretical and methodological framework of Charles Sanders Peirce´s semiotics. It aims at verifying the professional practices of four Brazilian daily newspapers and at evaluating their prevailing conceptions, the trends they follow in their professional practices as well as the characteristic ways they seem to show while producing semeiosis. These features have been verified through the observations of their routines, the carrying out of interviews and through the analysis of their published illustrations. The initial counterpoint for the analysis comprises illustrations rendered by artists and published in the Sunday edition of Folha de São Paulo, which helps categorize this type of activity as a practice connected to the art domain. From this crucial point on, this study has taken into consideration – in the interviews and in the observations of the professional routines – the role of these illustrations in the body of the newspaper, the issues related to style, the configuration of lexical repertoires, the applied techniques of these professional routines, the influence of informatization, the linkages with techniques of photography, the configuration of a professional culture, the professional interrelationships in the newsroom, the role of the establishment and the search for creative autonomy.