A Semana que o Rio ignorou: outros modernismos…

Abstract

In this centenary of the Brazilian “Week of Modern Art,” numerous reviews have been made in order to evaluate this event of great importance for the cultural history of Brazil. We know that Rio de Janeiro did not share much of the modernist proposal that arrived from São Paulo. This fact is understandable, since Rio modernized itself through very different ways and experiences, not following the avant-garde trend explored by São Paulo’s intellectuals. Even in Rio de Janeiro, an important group of modernist writers of spiritualist orientation was organized around the Dom Vital Center, an institution that congregated catholic intellectuals and artists, whose journal A Ordem helped to divulge this more conservative modernity. This “other modernism,” more conservative and distant from the vanguard, will be the point critically analyzed in this paper.