2015
Bilingual edition, Spanish\/English
Text: Ana Mar\u00eda Battistozzi
Graphic Design: Mar\u00eda Sibolich
Translations: Kit Maude<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In an extended essay by Ana Mar\u00eda Battistozzi this book provides a particular look at
the ways violence is present in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, an institution
that has accompanied more than half a century of Argentinian art history since 1956. The
essay focuses in on certain works from the collection, tracing connections and potential
lineaments for thinking both about the violence that manifests itself in figuration and that
applied in ways of working matter, and opposing other ways of making and
conceptualising history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Bearing in mind that the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires was founded by decree
in 1956, the year after the so-called \u2018Revoluci\u00f3n libertadora\u2019 which overthrew the government
of General Per\u00f3n, it is clear that the heritage the institution came to build could not remain
aloof from the tensions between the winners and losers that defined the decade. But they did
not end there: tension would reappear cyclically in different forms that over time began to
become disconnected from their epic origins, returning in far less noble incarnations. In fact,
a kind of reiterative impulse has almost made the looming threat of violence within Argentinian
society a natural feature of the landscape. \u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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