Organized by Dr. Conrado Pries de Castro. Translated by Giovanna Imbernon. Edited and reviewed by Claudia Pires de Castro and Giovanna Imbernon.
by Victória Bárbara Lopes dos Santos*
Translated by Claudia Pires de Castro
Edited and reviewed by Claudia Pires de Castro and Giovanna Imbernon
Organized by Dr. Conrado Pires de Castro
Organized by Dr. Conrado Pries de Castro. Translated by Giovanna Imbernon. Edited and reviewed by Claudia Pires de Castro and Giovanna Imbernon. "We grasp the 20th century by the tail, by the letters of the Latin alphabet. We write to honor our ancestors. We write to determine our own destiny. Self-determination. No more anthropophagic excuses, good intentions, full of tributes, and inspiration. Enough of taking our identities and narratives, turning them into a white’s place of occupation. No more appropriation. We want self-determination! We are the first."
Organized by Dr. Conrado Pries de Castro. Edited and reviewed by Claudia Pires de Castro and Giovanna Imbernon. "Nevertheless, today, the left in general, even in the field of culture, is dejected after the neoliberal shock of the last period and the rise of the far-right. Although not explicitly, it is evident that the “isms” in Brazil and throughout the world resulted from a historical opening that engendered aesthetic and political transformations. The 1920s, worldwide, was a decade of utopias and revolutions (and counter-utopias and counter-revolutions). We need to find a crack in this history that has closed for us, and I think the modernist project can perhaps help us with that."
Organized by Dr. Conrado Pries de Castro. Translated by Claudia Pires de Castro. Edited and reviewed by Claudia Pires de Castro and Giovanna Imbernon. "São Paulo. The way to the sea. Capitania of São Vicente. Port of Santos. Europe. In the comings and goings of the countryside's plateaus. At the continent. At crossing the Atlantic. We will still go to Europe. “In a coffee landfill”! As the samba composer, Noel Rosa says. Reaffirming the sentence. “Happiness is the litmus test”. From the Anthropophagic Manifesto."
Organized by Dr. Conrado Pries de Castro. Edited and reviewed by Claudia Pires de Castro and Giovanna Imbernon. "Disputes, controversies, interpretations, conflicts, contradictions have run deep throughout Brazilian culture, in its social life and material civilization, over the past hundred years. They express Brazil’s fantasies and hopes of having a date with the modern, with modernity. Without even noticing the high levels of modernity hiding inside this land of contrasts, according to Roger Bastide, that is, of contrasts and confrontations, as Euclides da Cunha pointed out in 1907. For those reasons, debates on the Week of Modern Art and the Modernist Movement have a lot to say about Brazil’s past and presents evils."