Toward a Reappraisal of Comparative Studies: The Case of South American Modernism.

The article focuses on views of the exhibition Arte moderno en Brasil (Modern art in Brazil), with works by Firmino Saldanha and Tarsila do Amaral. Topics include reports that application of comparative methods in the human sciences has a long epistemological tradition and academic disciplines from linguistics to literature, by way of anthropology, sociology, and history, have found in comparison a rich methodology.