Entre la academia y la crítica

The formation of art history as a discipline in Argentina, its main discursive constructions in academic research and in the practice of criticism from their textual productions (individual and collective publishing projects, journals). Relevant figures with registered activities in both fields, Julio E. Payró and Jorge Romero Brest, in the academic, Adolfo Rivera and Héctor Schenone, in criticism, such as Aldo Pellegrini and Julio Llinás, will all be considered. From the analysis of the discursive construction of art historical writing, we will attempt to reflect on the analytical perspectives or methods that allowed them to address Argentine art and its specificity; the notions of canon and aesthetic hierarchy from which the story of national art history and the categorizations that emerged around this concept and its distinctive features, its links with European or Latin American cities are all built. It will also explore the relationship between historiography, artistic production and the social, political and cultural context as well as the redefinition of the field that produced in recent years the expansion of the corpus to include other objects of visual culture.