LO NOVEDOSO EN LAS ARTES VISUALES ARGENTINAS DE LOS AÑOS 70. EL CASO DE MENDOZA

MARIA PAULA PINO VILLAR

Caderno de Letras

Centro de Letras e Comunicação da Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Lugar: Pelotas; Año: 2018

0102-9576

the present work attempts to identify the different positions that emerge within the discussions over the new forms of expression of the visual arts in the case of Mendoza (Argentina) during the 70s. The many positions on ?the new? are necessarily nestled in relation to their reception within the art field. Likewise, the concern is to identify the artistic agents associated to some innovative practices and how they managed to spread their work. That is, by what means the ideas about ?the new? within the visual art field circulated and who ?either people or institutions ? collaborated in the process. In order to do so, different written sources from the 70s were taken: cultural magazines such as Claves, Cinco para todos? and Enfoques together with newspapers like Mendoza and Los Andes and some exhibition catalogues. The path record of the mentioned sources allows the reconstruction of the ideas? scheme that the artists held over their practice and the answers they gave to the question on how art should be. Understanding the irruption of Pop art and Kinetic Art as innovations within the Mendocinean art field allows for the comprehension of the reception of these new forms of expression as alternatives of ?the new? within the art field in Mendoza.Keywords: Visual arts, Argentine art, Mendoza art, Vanguardism, Santángelo