Marxists, ma non troppo. The Path of Leftist Ideas in the Nueva Visión Project
Abstract
“From its beginning, Nueva Visión project (nueva visión magazine, 1951-1957, and Nueva Visión publishing house founded in 1955) set out a modernizing objective based on the synthesis of the arts and the problem of form. It was expressed in the Marxist terms that many of its members, such as Tomás Maldonado, Edgar Bayley, Alfredo Hlito, etc., had elaborated within the framework of concrete art. However, the new ideas from architecture and design, such as functionalism, styling or the concept of industrial design "that problematized the value of use and the value of the product as a commodity", would question left ideas. The influence of Max Bill, moreover, has introduced the need for a critical opening and antidogmatism in both political and aesthetic terms, which focused attention on mathematics. Analyzing the articles of nueva visión, and studing the first catalog of the publishing house, this paper reconstructs the course of left ideas in this modernizing project, cosidering its contradictions, as a way of thinking to what extent political aspects legitimize an artistic project or condition its development
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