On the Originality of the Procedimiento
Avant-Garde Invention and Inhuman Professionalism in César Aira’s Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12719320 |
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| Authors | Maria S Johnson (0000-0001-5848-3621, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, corresponding author), Matt Johnson (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-121 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Spanish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-3820 • E-ISSN: 1478-3428 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14753820.2024.2325818 |
| OpenAlex | W4394581794 |
| Language | EN |
In the 1990s, César Aira took a negative view of artistic professionalization in his essays, but he also wrote a biographical novel about a professional artist: Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero, which depicts landscape painter Johann Moritz Rugendas' South American travels in the 1830s. In his essays, Aira characterizes professionalization as a freezing of artistic form, and he positions the avant-garde as a dynamic process emerging out of a static professionalism. This essay argues that his novelistic treatment of Rugendas follows, but also diverges from, the ideas in his essays, exposing dynamics internal to professionalism itself
Art · Art history · Avant garde · Humanities · Originality · Political science · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · Law · Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics · Photographic and Visual Arts
| Highly cited | No |
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