Abstract
This essay aims to retrieve the development of modern architecture and modern literature and their indefeasible ties with political and economic power groups, which had direct impacts on Brazilian society and on the very self-image of Brazil. The triple relationship established here - political, economic and cultural - comes from a dialectical movement in which the ideological meaning of the “Estado Novo” (the Brazilian Third Republic) presents the idea of a progressive nation that would break with agrarian oligarchic vestiges as well as with external dependence, both on the political and economic fields. As a result of this process, we point out the innocuousness of the attempts to displace the centre and to renew economic and social characteristics taken as peripheral. The movement was not able to create a convergence around modern meanings, and literature and architecture remained strongly conservative in their attempts of critically overcoming the social critic. Conservatism in architecture is noted for its rapprochement with political power as a way to establish itself as the legitimate Brazilian architecture. In literature, the changes were restricted to style, setting aside ideological transformations.
Keywords:
Organization studies; New State; Modernism; Marxism