Abstract

CABEZAS, Laura. Tras el rastro de una estética vanguardista católica en Argentina Cruces entre religión, literatura y arte. Prismas [online]. 2023, vol.27, n.1, pp.108-129.  Epub Dec 06, 2023. ISSN 1852-0499.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48160/18520499prismas27.1283.

Following the trail of an avant-garde Catholic aesthetic in Argentina: intersections between religion, literature and art

This article aims to investigate the configuration of a Catholic avant-garde aesthetic that took place in the Argentine cultural field between the end of the Nineteen-twenties and the mid-Nineteen-forties. If, on the one hand, the revitalized Catholic thought had need of the representatives of the avant-garde in order to intellectualize and modernize its movement, the young people of the new art were interested in an immutable language that appealed to order after the explosive experiences of the avant-garde. As a hypothesis, we seek to demonstrate that the importance that neo-Thomism or Neo-Scholasticism acquired as the ideological discourse of lay Catholic youth, together with its postulation of an intellectual, hierarchical, and essentialist religiosity clearly coincided with the “post-rupturist” stage that certain avant-gardists were going through in pursuit of a non-representative art, characterized by classical overtones and a harmonically ordered execution.

Keywords : Argentinian Catholicism; Avant-garde; Neo Thomism; Catholic avant-garde aesthetics.

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