The emergence of the concrete invention art in Buenos Aires aesthetic sphere

Abstract

This article reconstructs and analyzes the position occupied by the members of the Art Concrete- Invention Asociation (AACI) in the artistic field of Buenos Aires during 1942-1948, focusing on the ways of artists’ insertion in that hierarchical space of struggles. Using the theoretical and methodological tools of the cultural sociology developed by Pierre Bourdieu, we present a reconstruction of the art field state when the concrete artists burst in and a relational configuration of the dominant positions and aesthetics of the period, as well as of the strategies employed by the AACI artists in the early years of their careers. Since the recovery of these strategies we also make a comparison with the rupture actions undertaken by the artists of the previous generation during the 20s, and a characterization of the peculiarities of the artistic production field’ structure in Argentina in each historical period.