Chilean Communist Visual Arts in the face of Socialist Realism during the early Cold War (1948-1952)
Abstract
This article studies Chilean communist art during the anti-communist persecution unleashed by President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (1948-1952). We propose to analyze the practices of the visual artists who were consecrated in the heart of the Chilean communist culture along with the discourses of art (reflections, debates, and critiques) that circulated in the media of the Chilean Communist Party at this time. Our main objective will be to elucidate the encounters and disagreements between the plastic culture of the CCP and socialist realism, which reached its most dogmatic formulation precisely in the context of the early Cold War. Thus, we will try to think the problem of the reception of the Soviet aesthetic theory in the platforms of the CCP, without losing sight of the "localist" inclinations of the Chilean communist art or the problems associated with the very exportability of socialist realism.
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