The article aims at analysing culture in the city of São Paulo in the middle of the century by emphazising the singular character of the languages during this period. Specificity results of the presence of a plural cultural network in which the own intellectuals and artists saw themselves as introducers of deep ruptures in relation with the legate of the modernism of the 20ies. Without being an exclusive, pure experience, in the city of São Paulo there was brought about an essencial perspective which could be called new modernism, supported by a heterogeneous and multiple cultural substance, related to a reality interconnected with the exterior movement. São Paulo's culture during this period identifies itself with the conceptions of progress, of the possibility of building up a civilized and internationally articulated future in the various fields of expression: in the social sciences, in arts, in poetry, in architecture, in theater, in cinema, in media.
culture; São Paulo; new modernism; 50's