Arte e Historia en los festejos del Centenario de la Revolución de Mayo en Buenos Aires

Among the broad panorama of celebrations organized to commemorate the Revolution of May in 1910 Buenos Aires, the National History Museum developed a broad project of production and circulation of images and texts. Through iconography and monumental sculpture this project had the aim of constructing...

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Main Author: Laura Malosetti Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte 2012-09-01
Series:Caiana: Revista de Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual
Online Access:http://caiana.caia.org.ar/resources/uploads/1-pdf/Malosetti.pdf
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Summary:Among the broad panorama of celebrations organized to commemorate the Revolution of May in 1910 Buenos Aires, the National History Museum developed a broad project of production and circulation of images and texts. Through iconography and monumental sculpture this project had the aim of constructing a hegemonic story of national history. In this article we discuss about the scope and limits of these initiatives to strength a canonical model of historical imagery, in their tension with other ideas about Argentinian art in the international context.
ISSN:2313-9242