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Os contemporâneos da Contemporânea (1915; 1922-1926)

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Abstract:
A Contemporânea, tal como o nome indica, publicou trabalhos dos que então se denominavam artistas ‘novos’, isto é, modernistas, sobretudo de Portugal e do Brasil. Figuram lado-a-lado, por exemplo, Fernando Pessoa e Oswald de Andrade, o que nos permite assumir que a revista reuniu os vates da literatura de um lado e do outro do Atlântico – um de Orpheu, outro da Semana de Arte Moderna. Por ser contemporânea, foi lugar de ideários díspares ou de mal-entendidos, como os artistas republicanos que publicavam no mesmo número que os de intenção monarquista, ou a necessidade de explicar o que era o futurismo para, em contrapartida, avisar aos leitores que a revista não era futurista!
The title Contemporânea already hints at its intention to highlight works by ‘new’ artists, or Modernists, mostly from Portugal and Brazil. The reader can find in its pages Fernando Pessoa side-by-side with Oswald de Andrade, two protagonists of Modernism—one linked to Orpheu, the other, to the Modern Art Week. Because it was contemporaneous, the journal served as a stage for disparaging political ideals and misunderstandings. Republican artists would publish alongside those whose political views were in favour of a Monarchist regimen. Also, the magazine felt the urge to explain what Futurism meant just to assure its readers that it was not a futurist publication!

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Martuscelli, Tania, "Os contemporâneos da Contemporânea (1915; 1922-1926)" (2022). Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/g6aa-n676

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  • Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies

    Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies (ISSN: 2212-4179) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to studies of Fernando Pessoa. It is published jointly by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, the Department of …

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