The Colors of the Words (about Manuel J. Castilla and the Plastics Arts)

Abstract

The production of the Argentine writer Manuel J. Castilla has been journeyed from several optics of analyses that have privileged the study of their connections with diverse artistic manifestations: the specifically literary ones, for example with some movements of the vanguard (the surrealism, the creacionismo, etc.); the crossings with the music, given the fluid one and states interrelation between texts written for the publication and the produced ones like letters of songs; they have been weighed, also, the nexuses with the contributions and the projections of the folklore in its texts. We considered that, in these perspective, the excellent contribution has not been taken into account still that the production of Castilla has received from the plastic arts, fundamentally of the painting, from the close personal nexus –often registered textually, by means of the dedications has not been taken into account still, epigraphs and the thematic and/or rhetorical preferences in their poems– with an important plastic group to the artistic production of the province of Salta (Ramiro Dávalos, Luis Preti, Carlos García Bes, Gertrudis Chale, Raúl Brie, among others). The intention of our work is to rescue the peculiarities of this dialogue, appealing to a reading that articulates the thematic elections, the discursive procedures and other confluences between the literature of Castilla and the work of these plastic artists.