Armiliar

Editorial

Federico Luis Ruvituso — 2024-12-18

Editorial to the 8th issue of the Armiliar magazine

Styles of Criticism

Natacha Segovia — 2024-12-18

This work delves into an exercise in historiographical writing carried out within the framework of the course Historiography of the Visual Arts III (FDA-UNLP). Based on the reading of three fundamental authors of the history of Argentine art: Eduardo Schiaffino, Antonio J. Payró and José León Pagano, students of the subject wrote critical essays on female artists, taking into account the sensitivity, resources and theoretical vision of the aforementioned authors. The three examples presented, which correspond to the analysis of the works of Raquel Forner, Dora Cifone and María Obligado de Soto y Calvo, give an account of possible readings in a historiographical key, categories, theories and aesthetic principles used for the construction of our art history.

Reproductions in The Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes Discourse During Eduardo Schiaffino’s Administration

Alejo Lo Russo — 2024-12-18

Over the fifteen years between 1895 and 1910, Eduardo Schiaffino was at the head of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, shaping a museum discourse using donated, bequeathed or acquired pieces. Regarding this last method of entry, we are interested in focusing on the projects to incorporate into the collection facsimile reproductions of European drawings from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and sculptural copies from different periods and cultural contexts. These decisions raise a series of questions regarding the roles assigned in the curatorial narratives of this period to these pieces, their interweaving with original works, as well as the theoretical foundation underlying the projects to incorporate them into the collection.

Ingenuity and Naivety: The (Im)possibility of Landscape in the ‘Review of Art in Colombia during the 19th Century’ (1965) by Eugenio Barney Cabrera

Verónica Uribe — 2024-12-18

In the context of 19th-century landscape painting in Colombia, the absence of a robust history is noted due to the scarcity of significant works in this genre. This article reviews the historiographic text by Eugenio Barney Cabrera, “Review of Art in Colombia During the 19th Century,” to understand that the continuous use of the term naivety to describe the artistic production of the time, characterizing it as poor and primitive, made it difficult to write a solid history of the 19th-century landscape genre in Colombia. According to Barney, the landscape was relegated to the background in favor of genres such as portrait and costumbrista painting.

A Modern Magazine for an American Retina

Malena Tanevitch Braziunas — 2024-12-18

El artículo explora la Revista del Ferrocarril Provincial de Buenos Aires como un artefacto de la cultura visual que ocupó un lugar clave en la modernización de la región. Centrándose en el período 1926-1932 bajo la dirección de Adolfo Travascio, se analiza cómo la revista promovió el desarrollo económico regional y un nuevo arte nacional de raíces autóctonas, en sintonía con el movimiento estético-político del americanismo. El fallecimiento de Travascio marcó un cambio en la orientación editorial.

New Directions for Feminist Research in Art History

Lucía Laumann — 2024-12-18

In March 2023, the First Workshop on Art, Gender, and Diversities: Exchanges for New Research was held. In recent years, there has been a growing body of research aimed at recovering the past work of women and queers, but also at questioning the discipline’s categories and methods. Aimed to provide a workspace for researchers interested in critical re-readings of Art History, particularly those related to the fields of feminism and queer studies, the workshop fostered exchange between researchers of different national and international universities.