Contemporaneity and battles: concerning argentinian inventionism (1944-1950)

Abstract

In this opportunity, an overview related to contemporánea journal is proposed, particularly his first period within 1948 and 1950. This publication was edited by Juan Jacobo Bajarlía in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and implied different cultural contacts, the transition from Arturo. Abstract Art Journal (Buenos Aires, 1944) to a variety of Argentinian Inventionism publications (Edgar Bayley, Tomás Maldonado, Bajarlía himself, among others). On this matter, is important to indicate links between institutions, discourses, actors and inventions which follow poetry and visual arts according to an interdisciplinary perspective or cultural journals studies as means of poetics. Concepts as revolution, battle, invention, contemporaneous and lunar-mole are joint in new realities and are connected with poetry and visual arts decisions.