Oswald de Andrade

José Oswald de Sousa de Andrade was born on 11 January 1890 in São Paulo, into a wealthy bourgeois family, and studied law at the Largo São Francisco. A patron of the modernists, he was one of the promoters of the Modern Art Week of 1922 and issued two manifestos, in 1924 and in 1928, the second calling for devouring the culture of the colonizer in order to digest it in one's own way. Linked to the painter Tarsila do Amaral, a member of the Communist Party from 1931 to 1945, he died in São Paulo on 22 October 1954.

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• NovelSerafim Ponte GrandeOswald de Andrade · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature