Well-re cognized key characters among intellectuals and artists involved in the 1922 Week of Modern Art, Graça Aranha and Paulo Prado are quite of ten disregarded by scholars and acknowled ged as backstage perso nalities with a suppor ting role. The objective of this article is to analyze more carefully the ir social network and insertion, revealing, among other things, the ambivalences of the ir "modern" project, as well as the ambivalences of the modernist movement itself.
Paulo Prado; Graça Aranha; 1922 Week of Modern Art; Modernism