In the month that marks the centenary celebrations of the 1922 Modern Art Week, the CNN Brazil presents the podcast Semana de 22 – Much more than modern. Reporter and presenter Paula Martini leads a journey through time and a reflection on the legacy of the movement one hundred years later.
What is modern? What is art? What is Brazilian? The fourth episode of the podcast tells that, in the first phase of modernism, the discussions were carried out by white people, heirs of the coffee barons. Brazil in the 1920s was still a rural, mestizo country that had abolished slavery less than 40 years ago. Through today’s lenses, the search for the “Brazilian soul” raised by artists who had little contact with the peripheral population can be interpreted, according to researchers, as folkloric and even as a cultural appropriation.
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