Estrangement, depolitization and social memory in the early Argentinean Art

Abstract

The ways which artists conceive their works changes in the late 60's and early 80's in Argentina. This changes allows us to reflect on the impact of the experience of the dictatorship in the ways of understanding the language of art and how the intellectual-artist defines and modifies their practices. This work aims to study the problem from three test cases that testify, from different places, changing artist-intellectual model of the 60 committed to its politicization during the 80's. From the analysis of a representative set of works seeks to formalize what is seen through the artistic language a new way of understanding the role art that bears witness to a political act to withdrawal of the proclamation of the ethical. The working hypothesis argues that the change that occurs in the model of intellectual artist of the 60 to 80 in Argentina shows a retreat from the direct action linked to the political commitment, to the estrangement and alienation as a reflection generic and introspective about recent history