O incontornável corpo da nação: reapropriações e heterodoxias futuristas em torno da Semana de Arte Moderna

Italian Futurism played a complex task, especially in the background of the São Paulo Art Week, but not exclusively. The article does not reconstruct the polemic on Futurism that marked the gestation of the Week, but rather the differential role that Italian Futurism had as articulating material of a broader process that absorbed it in the preparation of the modernist aesthetic and ideological plot, even when its influence was not explicitly manifested. Synthetically and by image, it could be said that a kind of negative conservation of values conductible to Italian Futurism occurred. It means a conditioned reuse in the complexity of Brazil’s historical and social body showing how the external influence works only at the moment it becomes a force of internal transformation, as semiotics demonstrates. In this way the legacy of Futurism is noticed not only in the inconveniences of the modern dawn but also in the dissemination that followed the impetuous emersion of the values of Modernism, in the refraction of multiple modernities.