The modernist legacy: Reception and developments in the 1960s and 1970s

ABSTRACT Over the last hundred years, modernist ideas have been the subject of numerous reinterpretations, updates and critical revisions. From the mid-twentieth century, artists from different fields - literature, theater, cinema, visual arts, and popular music,among others - took the vanguards of the 1920’s as matrices of invention and thought, and sought to update and radicalize them. In the toughest phase of the military regime, movements labeled as “marginal” sought in Modernism the sources of an experimental, ironic and subversive art. This article is a reflection on these “latter-day modernisms”, without neglecting the critical studies, somewhat averse to the modernist tradition, produced in the Academia in the same period - which, according to different sources, simultaneously marks the peak and the end of the influence of Modernism on Brazilian culture.

摘要
近百年来，现代主义思潮始终是诸多重释、更新与批判性修订的核心议题。自20世纪中叶起，来自文学、戏剧、电影、视觉艺术乃至流行音乐等不同领域的艺术家，以20世纪20年代先锋派为创作与思想母本，致力于对其进行更新与激进化改造。在军事独裁统治的最严酷阶段，被标记为"边缘"的艺术运动从现代主义中汲取灵感，以打造实验性、反讽性与颠覆性的艺术作品。本文旨在探讨这类"后世现代主义"，同时亦未忽略同期学术界中产生的、一定程度上抵触现代主义传统的批判性研究——据不同资料显示，这一时期同时标志着现代主义对巴西文化影响的巅峰与终结。