ABSTRACT
In Latin American intellectual history, modernism is a term that can be usefully and accurately applied to at least two distinct intellectual movements: a clearly definable modernist movement in Spanish-speaking Latin America (1880–1920) and another in Brazil (1922–45). Both modernist movements exploded on their respective scenes and represented cultural ruptures. Understandably, these two movements have somewhat different origins, contexts, consequences, trajectories, and groupings of thinkers as well as different legacies of influence and community. In most of those senses, therefore, they are largely unrelated, yet both have left enduring cultural legacies in their respective regions. Literature, thought, art, architecture, photography, and music are principal areas in which modernism has made its mark.
