ABSTRACT
The real culminating peak of Portuguese modernism was reached with the launching of Portugal Futurista, a magazine that came out in 1917 in one issue and truly brought together literature with visual arts. If Orpheu accepts and diffuses various literary trends, the magazine could be described as a sensationist magazine as a whole and thereby represents genuine Portuguese modernism, whose key characteristic is a plurality of various isms. The range of modernist magazines, Centauro and ExIlio come between Orpheu and Portugal Futurista. Although these magazines enjoy a somewhat fleeting status within Portuguese modernism, they are not entirely insignificant in literary terms. In general, a habit of or desire for the new and the future predominated in modernism prior to the First World War. However, the futurist movement had little impact on Portuguese social life, which shown a certain immaturity and resistance to all attempts to bring about an artistic revolution.
