ABSTRACT

Couto de Barros: a elite nos bastidores do modernismo paulista, by Maria Eugenia Boaventura, and Couto de Barros: o filósofo da malta (textos modernistas), edited by the same author, recover an important, although almost forgotten, member of the group that organized the Modern Art Week and played a decisive role in the reconfiguration of letters, culture and institutional life in São Paulo. With access to Couto de Barros archive, preserved by his family, Boaventura reconstructs not only a biographical and historical-literary narrative, but also the material history of this group. This review analyzes the recovery of this new character, Boaventura’s methodology and the theoretical architecture implicit in her research.

KEYWORDS
Maria Eugenia Boaventura; Antônio Carlos Couto de Barros; Paulista modernism; archive