This paper concentrates on Witkacy’s Pure Form and the concept of Anthropophagy
that was coined by Oswald de Andrade, and their affi nity with the notions of utopia and tropicality.
Tropicality is detected in the form of the imaginary construction of Witkacy regarding the South Sea
Islands on the one hand, and on the other in the utopic island of Vera Cruz, reinvented by Oswald
de Andrade in his mature years. The seamen of the old world fi rst conceptualised Vera Cruz in this
way in legends that alluded to the lost paradise and following this trace Oswald dreamt it could
be a future paradise. Both Witkacy and de Andrade, beyond being artists, were thinkers of their
specifi c cultures and had their theories regarding the future of mankind.
Brown Men and Women, or the South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896
