Talk:Mário de Andrade

Major expansion pretty much finished--the structure should remain as it is.

Chick Bowen 03:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply

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AFD tag

I removed the {{afd}} tag from this article as it did not belong, it was added by a user who has been warned for vandalism, I apoligize if I stepped out of line according to

The infobox isn't necessary, but now there is no picture of Mário de Andrade on the article, not even the Segall painting. Macgreco 19:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The fair use of the Segall painting has been challenged by another editor. I'm looking for more information about the painting and Mário's role in it, but for now I've removed it.

Chick Bowen 04:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply

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I see that someone has once again tried to add an infobox. The caveat here is that I am against them in general. But this article shows particularly clearly the problem with them. The recent attempt lists all of the occupations that are mentioned in the lead; I'll admit that I put them there in the first place, but in prose, not set out by themselves where they do nothing but confuse. Obviously Andrade is first and foremost a poet, as the lead makes clear, and as the infobox did not. The infobox also listed the pen name Mário Sobral, a name he used very briefly, for one early book that got very little attention; to list it right under his name is misleading. Isn't it better--clearer, more accurate--to provide all this information in prose, where it can be weighted appropriately and given its proper context, where we can say when he used the pen-name and when he dropped it, and when he lived in São Paulo and when he didn't and why he left and came back, where we can make clear why someone who never worked as a musician was educated at a music school: where, in short, we can provide a biography rather than a series of isolated facts that don't add up to an account of the man?

However, we could use

Chick Bowen 07:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply

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• "Aesthetics of Equilibrium: The Vanguard Poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mário de Andrade" by Bruce Dean Willis [1]
• "Mutilated Selves: Pauline Melville, Mário de Andrade, and the Troubling Hybrid" by Albert Braz [2]
• "Cultural Theory and the Avant-Gardes: Mariátegui, Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade, Pagú, Tarsila do Amaral, César Vallejo" by Fernando J. Rosenberg [3]

Considering that there are few inline citations, I think that more sources should be consulted to ensure that more information does not need to be added to the article. I also think that the larger sections can be broken up by level 3 headings and that some of the references should be listed as "Notes", but these are secondary concerns. Is anyone interested in addressing these concerns? If not, should this article go to FAR? Z1720 (talk) 18:03, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]