Vanguard and Revolution as ideas-force in Argentinean art of the sixties

Abstract

The paper questions the ways in which vanguard and revolution functioned as ideas-force in the Argentinean art of the long 1960s-1970s, understanding them as values in dispute and in continuous redefinition. The author traces the contrasting ways in which, during that time, art was linked with the imaginary of social change, presenting some landmarks of Argentinean experimental art of the sixties-seventies and discussing a series of theoretical and empirical disputes in which took part not only the experimental artists themselves but also other cultural agents - institutional managers, art critics (specialized or not), the public, intellectuals and political activists.