Images, language and distance. Paris from Latin America during the sixties

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Congreso; Congreso internacional de la American Comparative Literature Assotiacion (ACLA). Sesión: ?After Paris, What? Exile, Exoticism and Eccentricity in Latin America Intelligentsia and its New Capitals?,; 2014

American Comparative Literature Assotiacion (ACLA)

Sesión: ?After Paris, What? Exile, Exoticism and Eccentricity in Latin America Intelligentsia and its New Capitals?, organizada por Leonardo D?Avila de Oliveira (Boston University) and Rodrigo Lopes de Barros (Universidade de Santa Catarina). Resumen: During the 1960?s, when the decline of Paris was matter of discussion even among the French, the bonds between the Argentine intellectuals and the City of Light started to take on new shape. Those artists living abroad also reflected on their condition as migrants and included foreignness in their work: Juan José Saer, emigrated to France; Antonio Berni, who installed a studio in Paris in 1963; Luis Felipe Noé and Uruguayan Luis Camnitzer, both settled in New York; Copi, attempting to define the "Argentine of Paris"; Julio Le Parc, also in Paris, making of the foreign condition a sort of Latinamericanist activism. What were the particularities of those intellectual journeys of the 1960?s? During the 19th century, the shape of European metropolises was conditioned by the rise of colonialism and was part of the configuration of modernity. How to understand, therefore, the journeys undertaken by these artists in times of crisis of that modernity? In face of the centre-periphery antinomy crystallized with the discourse of dependency, we aim at analyzing the spectrum of experiences revealed by these migrant individuals. The migration of intellectuals and cultural productions contributed to shape the representations of the French and the Latin American cultures in a period marked by the American hegemony and the emergence of the Third World. Thus, the maps outlined had New York as an unavoidable presence but, at the same time, included Latin America with a new political and cultural international visibility.