On Being Modern: Possibilities of Resistance through Primitivism and Ingenuousness in Ernesto de Sousa and Almada Negreiros

This paper aims to contrast the particular uses of the modern categories of ingenuousness and primitivism both in José de Almada Negreiros and Ernesto de Sousa within their broader presence in twentieth century art. In so doing it seeks to contextualize multiple ways of understanding modernity and i...

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Main Author: Pinto dos Santos, Mariana
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA) 2016-07-01
Series:RIHA Journal
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Online Access:http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2016/0131-0140-special-issue-southern-modernisms/0137-pinto-dos-santos
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description This paper aims to contrast the particular uses of the modern categories of ingenuousness and primitivism both in José de Almada Negreiros and Ernesto de Sousa within their broader presence in twentieth century art. In so doing it seeks to contextualize multiple ways of understanding modernity and its legitimation through discursive practices. Ernesto de Sousa reinterpreted an idea of modernity that followed up on Almada Negreiros' modern experience. The concept of "voluntary ingenuousness" was developed by Almada after the 1920s, but it had its roots in the futurist proposals he embraced in the first decades of the twentieth century. Primitivism and ingenuousness were the fundamental terms for Almada Negreiros and Ernesto de Sousa through which they reinvented themselves as well as modernity and forged liberty within a dictatorship regime.
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On Being Modern: Possibilities of Resistance through Primitivism and Ingenuousness in Ernesto de Sousa and Almada Negreiros
RIHA Journal
Modern
Progress
Tradition
Dictatorship
Freedom
Futurism
Primitivism
title On Being Modern: Possibilities of Resistance through Primitivism and Ingenuousness in Ernesto de Sousa and Almada Negreiros
title_full On Being Modern: Possibilities of Resistance through Primitivism and Ingenuousness in Ernesto de Sousa and Almada Negreiros
title_fullStr On Being Modern: Possibilities of Resistance through Primitivism and Ingenuousness in Ernesto de Sousa and Almada Negreiros
title_full_unstemmed On Being Modern: Possibilities of Resistance through Primitivism and Ingenuousness in Ernesto de Sousa and Almada Negreiros
title_short On Being Modern: Possibilities of Resistance through Primitivism and Ingenuousness in Ernesto de Sousa and Almada Negreiros
title_sort on being modern possibilities of resistance through primitivism and ingenuousness in ernesto de sousa and almada negreiros
topic Modern
Progress
Tradition
Dictatorship
Freedom
Futurism
Primitivism
url http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2016/0131-0140-special-issue-southern-modernisms/0137-pinto-dos-santos
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