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No. 4 (2021): Cultural activisms in Latin America in the 21st century. Practices, actors, legacies

The Aesthetic-ethical heritage of Peronism in contemporary Argentinean murals

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46608/conceptos2021b/art9
Submitted
April 19, 2024
Published
2021-12-30

Abstract

Over the last two decades, Argentine muralists have organised themselves into networks and collectives to develop an aesthetic-political project at the crossroads of tradition and contemporaneity. Therefore, in this article we propose to explore the recuperation, re-semantisation and adaptation to the mural surface of an iconography of the 45-50s linked to the Peronist left, which would then become a projector of current socio-political concerns. In order to carry out this work, we will rely on the analysis of six murals made between 2013 and 2021 in different urban spaces of the country.