The Anthropophagy Manifesto Posters

Series of three posters introducing what the Anthropophagy Manifesto in Brazil.

Anthropophagy, the act of a human eating human flesh, a term wisely chosen by Oswald de Andrade to state how Brazilian art would be from that moment on: A beautiful deglutition of what comes from outside. Brazilian Anthropophagy has transformed fears and the hatreds traditionally linked to European accounts of American cannibalism, in the artistic recognition of a state of boundless freedom and a poetic vision of cultural renewal. This is what the Anthropophagy Manifesto is claiming, how my mother land was already extremely rich on its own even before the Portuguese paved the way, how Brazil has its own culture, not some whitewashed interpretation of any european catholic art, and how those artists would detach art from the norms of the time, swallowing European culture (aesthetic culture prevailing at the time) and spewing something very Brazilian, creating an aesthetic of our own. My country is the fifth biggest one in the world, brazilians need to recognize the beauty our art has and that’s why the Anthropophagy Manifesto is so important to me and critical to brazilian culture since it emphasizes the presence of the patriotic element, open doors to what it is called of “nationalist naturalism”, a doctrine that translates into the desire for the artist to capture the national truth, the Brazilian type, the country's landscape, its light and colors, detaching itself from the notion of “absolute beauty” cultivated in the academy. In other words, it puts Brazil on the map as who exactly we are, and this means so much to a Brazilian student like me.