TY - JOUR

T1 - Media Art in Argentina

T2 - Ideology and Critique "Después Del Pop"

AU - Benezra, Karen

PY - 2012/6/1

Y1 - 2012/6/1

N2 - This article examines the rise and reception of conceptual art in Argentina. Against dominant readings of the 1960s' and 70s' visual avant-gardes in Latin America, I reconsider the stakes of art's so-called “dematerialization” and its unique claim on ideology critique in the work of the Grupo Arte de los Medios [Media Art Group], a collective of young artists led by the philosopher and literary critic Oscar Masotta. Arguing for a re-historicization of the 1960s avant-garde as one that emerges as a self-reflexive reaction to the novel articulation of late capitalism in Argentina, I trace a critical continuity between the Grupo Arte de los Medios and the avant-gardist claims on the fusion of art and militant politics among its immediate successors. I suggest that the Argentinean avant-garde defined its radical political stance through a reflection on the immanent relation of structural cause to symbolic form, probing and pointing to the limits of the operation of estrangement.

AB - This article examines the rise and reception of conceptual art in Argentina. Against dominant readings of the 1960s' and 70s' visual avant-gardes in Latin America, I reconsider the stakes of art's so-called “dematerialization” and its unique claim on ideology critique in the work of the Grupo Arte de los Medios [Media Art Group], a collective of young artists led by the philosopher and literary critic Oscar Masotta. Arguing for a re-historicization of the 1960s avant-garde as one that emerges as a self-reflexive reaction to the novel articulation of late capitalism in Argentina, I trace a critical continuity between the Grupo Arte de los Medios and the avant-gardist claims on the fusion of art and militant politics among its immediate successors. I suggest that the Argentinean avant-garde defined its radical political stance through a reflection on the immanent relation of structural cause to symbolic form, probing and pointing to the limits of the operation of estrangement.

KW - 20 century Argentinean art

KW - Avant-garde

KW - Grupo Arte de los Medios

KW - Instituto Torcuato Di Tella

KW - Materialist aesthetics

KW - Oscar Bony

KW - Oscar Masotta

KW - Science of art

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953866069&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1162/ARTM_a_00023

DO - 10.1162/ARTM_a_00023

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:84953866069

VL - 1

SP - 152

EP - 175

JO - ARTMargins

JF - ARTMargins

SN - 2162-2574

IS - 2-3

ER -