Manifesto anti-Dantas

work by Almada Negreiros

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The Manifesto anti-Dantas was a provocative work by Portuguese Modernist writer and artist José de Almada Negreiros. Published in 1915, it was a satirical attack on Júlio Dantas, a prominent doctor and politician. This manifesto, along with his "Futurist Ultimatum to the Portuguese Generations of the 20th Century" (1917), exemplifies Negreiros's independent and spontaneous style, which often challenged societal norms and artistic conventions of the time. Manifestos, in general, are public declarations of a group's or individual's ideas, opinions, or plans, often marking the advent of new movements in art, literature, or politics.12

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…who provoked scandal with his Manifesto anti-Dantas (1915), which ridiculed the doctor and politician Júlio Dantas, and his “Ultimatum futurista ás gerações portuguezas do Seculo XX” (1917; “Futurist Ultimatum to the Portuguese Generations of the 20th Century”). Almada Negreiros’s work exudes independence and spontaneity. His poetry—the primary collection of which…
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…who provoked scandal with his Manifesto anti-Dantas (1915), which ridiculed the doctor and politician Júlio Dantas, and his “Ultimatum futurista ás gerações portuguezas do Seculo XX” (1917; “Futurist Ultimatum to the Portuguese Generations of the 20th Century”). Almada Negreiros’s work exudes independence and spontaneity. His poetry—the primary collection of which…
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