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Article: The modernist movement.(Essay)
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- Portuguese Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Abstract. In 'The Modernist Movement', the leading figure of Brazil's 1920s avant-garde generation offers a self-critical post-mortem of the modernist adven ture, two decades on. Andrade first evokes the energy, turbulence and social character of the movement: the ambivalent relationships between the anti-bourgeois artists and intellectuals, their patrons, the paulista coffee 'aristocracy', the provincial yet cosmopolitan spirit of Sao Paulo, the 'folksy' conservatism of Rio de Janeiro, and the regions. He then focuses insistently on the Modernists' necessarily 'destructive' spirit of rupture, but also the principles they succeeded in putting on the agenda: the right to ...