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.