Politics, desire and memory in the construction of landscape in the Argentine pampas

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Keywords:: landscape, culture, memory, Argentina, history, Latin American art
Available in:: JVAP 5.1 - about JVAP
Funded by:: NAFAE - about NAFAE
Pulished:: July 2006

Article abstract

Although some German, English and French artists who came to South America from the beginning of the nineteenth century travelled to the Argentine pampas, they failed to see them as a possible landscape. During that century - the era of exploration, colonization and landscape painting in America - no landscapes were painted of those immense plains. This absence will be the centre of these reflections, focusing on two main issues: on the one hand the role of schemata from the perception to the representation of nature, and on the other, the interaction of national politics regarding the ways of appropriation of the land with the emergence of desire and memory in the construction of landscape. I will also analyse the photo-performances of contemporary artist Juan Doffo as a visual and affective reflection on these issues.

Written by: Laura Malosetti Costa

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