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Dada, Surrealism, Antropofagia: The Consuming Process of the Avant-gardes

2013; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/esp.2013.0031

1931-0234

Virginie Pouzet-Duzer,

Cinema and Media Studies

This article shows how cannibalism links symbolically and aesthetically the famous European-centered Dada and Surrealism movements and the lesser known Brazilian Antropofagia movement. Via manifestos and creations such as collages, these three avant-gardes indeed consume and devour each other, turning innovation into tradition, and the new into the old, before renewing it.