Hyper-Realist Mirrors
Exequiel Martinez’s Oil Paintings as Testimonies of the Air Battle Over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosana Guber (0000-0002-0469-8982, Centro Científico Tecnológico - San Juan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 350-375 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2022.2078542 |
| OpenAlex | W4283698450 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper examines how artists create the past. It analyses the aeronautic works of art by Captain Exequiel Martínez as portrayed and used by the painter, the Argentine Air Force and the Argentine officers who took part of the air battle for the Malvinas/Falklands in 1982. Unlike the dominant views condemning the armed initiative of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976–83), this paper delves into the military worldview and reconstructs the premises through which the Argentine Air Force and a pilot-painter have managed to pay homage, acknowledge, and make visible the feats of the Argentine pilots against the British Task Force. Taking advantage of an anthropology of the production of history, the author unravels the process undergone by painter Martínez and the pilots portrayed in his paintings to turn Argentine defeat into visual evidence, solid experience and historical plausibility
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Battle · Dictatorship · Painting · Political science · Politics · Visual arts · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Military History and Strategy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |