Divergent models: between history and aesthetics. Re-reading of the historical work of Eduardo Schiaffino

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  • Natacha Valentina Segovia Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

Eduardo Schiaffino, aesthetic model, historical model, positivism, symbolism

Abstract

Eduardo Schiaffino linked his state management with the task of examining the artistic past, taking as a model the positivist proposals of Hyppolite Taine. The idea that an art class can be determined by the moral state, which in turn is conditioned by race, moment and means, organizes the work of the Argentinian artist and establishes, at the same time an evolutionary and progressive conception of art.The pictorial work of Schiaffino, on the other hand, is linked to the symbolism, a contemporary movement opposed to positivism. In this article, I will analyze how this preference is introduced in the critical-historical discourse. My hypothesis holds that a methodology linked to positivism introduces an aesthetic model that could come into conflict with the presuppositions of the historical and methodological model.

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Published

2017-04-17

How to Cite

Segovia, N. V. (2017). Divergent models: between history and aesthetics. Re-reading of the historical work of Eduardo Schiaffino. Armiliar, (1), 58–68. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/armiliar/article/view/384

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