The Poster as a Political Aesthetic Device

This article approaches the poster as a political aesthetic device, starting from its emergence at the end of the 18th century, continuing with its late introduction into the artistic sphere through the avant-gardes of the 20th century (with special attention to the work of Bertolt Brecht), and fina...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perearnau, Marcos
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/telondefondo/article/view/6523
https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=telonde&d=6523_oai
Aporte de:
Descripción
Sumario:This article approaches the poster as a political aesthetic device, starting from its emergence at the end of the 18th century, continuing with its late introduction into the artistic sphere through the avant-gardes of the 20th century (with special attention to the work of Bertolt Brecht), and finally focusing on the use of posters in contemporary art –more specifically, in the Buenos Aires theatre scene– in the context of artivism. Posters as a device articulate a unique relation between the utterable and the visible, between statements and visibilities, and they find their sense beyond the theatrical ritual in politics. Thus, posters appear as a privileged device for capturing the images and texts of a time.