Modernismo mineiro: sociabilidade e produção intelectual na década de 1920

Abstract

This paper analyses the modernist movement in Minas Gerais during the decade of 1920 focusing on the existing relation between intellectual people and their cultural production. In this context, the concept of sociality is the basis of this research and we focused our attention on self-referential writing and magazines published during that period as sources that make possible for the researcher to find the origin of two modernist groups in Minas – “O grupo do Estrela” (Star Group) from Belo Horizonte and “Grupo Verde” ( Green Group) from Cataguases. These two groups are responsible for publishing the magazines: “A Revista” ( The Magazine) and “Revista Verde: mensário de arte e cultura” ( Green Magazine: monthly publication of art and culture) that have made Minas Gerais production public and have allowed the contact between intellectual young people and famous names from Brazil and other countries. The young people from Minas were anxious to build a modern nation so they joined other modernist people and used their magazines as keys to open possibilities for a national culture free from academicism and foreignism. Therefore this paper wants to analyze the aspects that involve acquaintanceship, dialogues and exchanges occurred in that time, which are all important points to understand these intellectual people´s formation process and their way to act.