Artes plásticas y mujeres en la última dictadura Argentina: análisis desde un caso trans-local

Abstract

This article reconstructs the emerging female presences in an art hall held annually during the last Argentine dictatorship, where the city of Córdoba intertwined local, national and Hispanic American networks. As a hypothesis it is argued that in the artistic field of the 1970s and 1980s prevailed a three-layer pyramidal hierarchy: the young, people at the base, the recognized ones at a mid position and the consummate artists at the to In this context, the art hall showed a pluralistic composition among accepted contestants; however the honors (economic and symbolic) were repeatedly awarded to works produced by male and older authors. The generalities of the hall are explored within cultural politics through conceptual tools of Cultural History and Gender Studies. Also, a further analysis of the sculptural competition is done where “the feminine” existed not just as objects represented by men but in the creative strategies of female sculptors.