Politics at Play: The Jewish Community and the Development of the Visual Arts in Buenos Aires, 1943-1952
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| Publicado en: | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (2024) |
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| Resumen: | This dissertation asserts that, between 1943 and 1952, distinct factions of the Jewish community in Buenos Aires deployed artmaking and collecting to promote a communist-leaning platform to emerge from the margins of society into intellectual leftist circles while concurrently encouraging Argentina to engage in the global shift of capital formation towards development economic practices. I contend that the Jewish community strove to establish cultural capital as a resource that it invested, accumulated, and converted into other forms of capital. In this way the Jewish diasporic impulse towards avant-garde cosmopolitanism in the visual arts, characterized by the instrumentalization of current artistic trends in the service of creating an interconnected, global community, goes beyond navigating identities and becomes the foundation for actively constructing culture in Argentina.I have divided the dissertation into two main parts. The first part focuses on the affiliated Jewish community, while the second explores groups of Jews that functioned outside of the organized religion. The first two chapters address the seminal institution Sociedad Hebraica de Argentina, which acted as a mediator between the Jewish community and the Argentinean intellectual elites in various capacities. Through various artistic endeavors, SHA promoted a leftist leaning ideological stance with subtle communist undertones, while establishing a vehicle to integrate the Jewish community into the larger national rhetoric through its commitment to modernization and development in Buenos Aires.As a counterpart to this, the subsequent two chapters explore artists of Jewish descent, who remained, for the most part unaffiliated with the community. Because they functioned outside of consecrated spaces, these Jews had more freedom than affiliated institutions and collectors to take a radical and innovative approach to artmaking as it related to communist ideals. These Jewish artists promoted and, in many instances, introduced modern, utopic ideals and Marxist ideologies within marginal, yet key intellectual circles, including Gyula Kosice, Martín Blazsko, Grete Stern, Yente, and Diyi Laañ. That said, scholars overlook their ethnic origins because many were not directly associated with the Jewish community. I contend that this coincides with the Jewish community’s desire to make the country global and modern and promote leftist ideologies, specifically to reorder Argentina. My project offers a timely contribution towards understanding the profound impact a marginalized, immigrant community can have on the construction of a nation. |
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| ISBN: | 9798310386662 |
| Fuente: | ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global |