Art Collectors in Network and Identity Narratives: Contributions to a Cartography of the Genre of Types and Costumes in South America

JUAN RICARDO REY MÁRQUEZ; JOSEFINA DE LA MAZA CHEVESICH; CATALINA VALDÉS ECHENIQUE; CAROLINA VANEGAS CARRASCO

Artl@s Bulletin

École normale supérieure y Centre national pour la recherche scientifique

Lugar: París; Año: 2016 vol. 5

2264-2668

One of the best-known visual manifestations of nineteenth-century Latin America iscostumbrismo, a genre that describes social types and popular subjects. Scholarship has usually understood this genre as an illustration of early Republican times produced by the gaze of European artists, proposing a hierarchical structure in relation to the production and consumption patterns of these images. Following the path opened in the last decade by new studies, this paper contributes to the ongoing debates on costumbrismo, by examining the role played by a South American network of historians and collectors modeling identity narratives throughout the twentieth-century