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Mário de Andrade

Mário de Andrade

Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer

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Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.

Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism, and became Brazil's national polymath. His photography and essays on a wide variety of subjects, from history to literature and music, were widely published. He was the driving force behind the Week of Modern Art, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil, and a member of the avant-garde "Group of Five." The ideas behind the Week were further explored in the preface to his poetry collection Pauliceia Desvairada, and in the poems themselves.

After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. Work on Brazilian folk music, poetry, and other concerns followed unevenly, often interrupted by Andrade's shifting relationship with the Brazilian government. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as the catalyst of the city's—and the nation's—entry into artistic modernity.

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Fraulein

Mário de Andrade

1927

Macunaíma

Mário de Andrade

1928

Popular Music and Song in Brazil

Mário de Andrade

1928

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Person
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Birthdate
October 9, 1893
Birthplace
São Paulo
São Paulo
Date of Death
February 25, 1945
Place of Death
São Paulo
São Paulo
Occupation
Art critic
Art critic
Novelist
Novelist
Poet
Poet
Photographer
Photographer
Journalist
Journalist
Writer
Writer

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Citizenship
Brazil
Brazil
Notable Work
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Macunaíma
Pseudonym
Mário Sobral
Mário Sobral
Wikidata ID
Q203623

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