Between Buenos Aires and Europe cosmopolitanism, "pensionnaires", and arts education in late 19th century Argentina
"The National Academy of Fine Arts (ANBA) was created in Buenos Aires in 1905. The date is relatively recent if we compare it with other parallel institutions in Latin America. Buenos Aires was a remote and impoverished viceroyalty of the south of the continent. During the colonial period, ther...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Academies and schools of art in Latin America / edited by Oscar E. Vázquez |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The National Academy of Fine Arts (ANBA) was created in Buenos Aires in 1905. The date is relatively recent if we compare it with other parallel institutions in Latin America. Buenos Aires was a remote and impoverished viceroyalty of the south of the continent. During the colonial period, there did not develop any institutional artistic tradition comparable to those in cities such as Mexico, Lima, or Rio de Janeiro. The transition from a colonial to independent Argentine nation witnessed the creation of the first drawing schools and the creation of a chair with an eminently technical profile, in the newly founded University of Buenos Aires (1821). However, these initiatives had a precarious existence in the fractured institutions of those years. The establishment of more stable and lasting cultural institutions became a project carried out by the liberal and culturally enlightened oligarchic elite of the last decades of the century that assumed the leadership of shaping the nation-state. It is in the last quarter of the century that the most important private patronage societies emerged. The Society for the Stimulus of the Fine Arts (hereon SEBA) was a key player in the promotion of the arts and training of artists; as such, it was an important step in the formation of the National Academy. This private association, created in 1876 by a group of artists and amateurs, aimed at "fostering the development and advancement [in Argentina] of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the other arts that emanate from them." Local training was complemented with an emergent system of scholarships abroad, which allowed those who aspired to be professional artists, at least for a few, to come into contact with extant traditions and models of artistic life. Those European traditions, brought with them by students returning to their home country, had to be adapted to the local realities. [...]" |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustration |
| ISBN: | 978-0-815-37416-9 |