Outras vias entre as vanguardas brasileiras e argentinas nos anos 1920¹

ABSTRACT

This essay portrays Menotti Del Picchia and Luís da Câmara Cascudo as pioneers in the dialogue between the Brazilian and Argentine avant-gardes. Del Picchia is the author of the first articles in Brazil about the magazine Martín Fierro and about Oliveiro Girondo, in 1925. He is the first to mention the Modern Art Week in Argentina, in the same year, and wrote the first text on Luis Emilio Soto and Pedro Juan Vignale when they come to Brazil in 1926. Câmara Cascudo was who introduced Brazilian modernists to Argentines, resulting in the first article about Mário de Andrade published in Buenos Aires, in 1925, and in the beginning of his dialogues with the Argentines. These initial contacts were intermediated by Monteiro Lobato.

KEYWORDS:
Modern Art Week; Martín Fierro; Menotti del Picchia; Luís da Câmara Cascudo; Mário de Andrade; Nicolás Olivari; Luis Emilio Soto; Pedro Juan Vignale