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Chronicles of the city:

2025-05-19T19:37:55+00:00

In this article we will examine a series of drawings that make up the artistic production of Darío Ares (Rosario, 1979), whose graphic representations build an epistemology of the visual. The images emerge from photographs taken from news published in local newspapers about the violence perpetrated in specific places in the city, scenes that have been reappropriated and reproduced by the artist to generate his own files. The working hypothesis focuses on examining how Ares' drawings and archives form an iconic fabric that recalls the conceptual articulations of Walter Benjamin's Das Passagen-Werk (1982), and on detecting the links between image and text. To unfold these questions, it includes notions from the field of visual studies. We conclude that they are visual archives that describe the social and political consequences of urban violence, moving away from the hegemonic stories that characterize the journalistic descriptions of the mass media, and where the image is proposed as a means of knowledge, as a critical agency and transformation of reality.

Pietà Visualities:

2025-05-20T16:26:02+00:00

This reflection article derives from the analytical and critical review of the significance of art in visual, historical and cultural memory. Its purpose is to smooth out the statements behind the images that go beyond even the artistic to indicate their (political) power, subject to the mode of assembly and archiving of technological advances and their communication and consumption consequences. Through a hermeneutic analysis stimulated by visual studies and Art History, we study the image of Michelangelo's Pietà (between 1498-1499) and its various interrelationships in reinterpretations provided by contemporary art to the medial iconosphere on social networks. Beyond the confirmation of the reference of the original, the symbolic representation of the image of pain and loss problematizes political reception and effectiveness, denoting the relationship between power and image from the strength of the memory of the gesture, to touching sensitive fibers of the real in the Latin American case.

Hermeneutics and Emblematic in Hispano-American Baroque.

2025-05-26T17:33:34+00:00

En el marco de la amplia repercusión que han tomado los estudios sobre las imágenes desde la década de 1990 del siglo pasado, el presente trabajo indaga en la literatura emblemática del barroco hispanoamericano de los siglos XVI y XVII como artificios disimulatorios del poder. A partir de las nociones de figurabilidad y textualidad ampliada se sostiene que las imágenes de los emblemas barrocos pueden ser leídas como un texto escrito y que su legibilidad está condicionada de manera múltiple por su estructura y por el nivel de alfabetización de los lectores. El objetivo del trabajo es mostrar cómo estos dispositivos semióticos funcionaron de manera solapada a las finalidades políticas de la conquista de las almas frente a la conquista de los cuerpos de la etapa anterior. Desde esta perspectiva, la lectura de la emblemática barroca puede constituirse en un punto de partida para la elaboración de un modelo de lectura para el análisis de las publicidades televisivas, de la propaganda partidaria y de las comunicaciones en las redes sociales en torno a la producción de subjetividades políticas.

Towards a Latin American Epistemology

2025-05-19T19:49:21+00:00

This article analyzes two Stations of the Cross from the cathedral of La Plata and the cathedral of Bariloche in Argentina, as well as one of the tympanums of the cathedral of La Plata. These works, by sculptor Gabriel Cercato and architect Alejandro Santana, address the construction of the epistemic character of their production from a decolonial perspective. Rethinking the concept of decolonization from Latin America in relation to the works of Cercato and Santana is one of the issues addressed, as well as the categories of analysis that will be configured based on a theoretical framework constructed by authors of liberation philosophy such as Enrique Dussel. It examines authors of the decolonial turn, such as Walter Mignolo and Anibal Quijano. From a historical perspective, we will work with Juan José Hernández Arregui and Fermín Chávez. The categories of analysis approaches from a historical/philosophical perspective based on the concept of art and the agents involved in the creative process. In this sense, it reviews the categories of traditional European aesthetics (work of art, artist) and their contemporary evolution, privileging a relational and situational conception of the artistic process, thus rethinking these concepts in the Latin American context, specifically Argentina.

Losing Knowledge, Gaining Autonomy:

2025-05-19T19:31:59+00:00

The ontological turn, driven by the new realisms and speculative realisms, has revitalized art theory. This new aesthetic redefines the argumentative bases of strongly criticized concepts, such as autonomy, beauty, essence and the role of the spectator. Consequently, the “artistic image” can be reformulated in a neorealist and speculative way, gaining autonomy, but at the cost of losing its epistemological function. In this context, this paper presents the results of an investigation based on the application of the “ontographic model” of Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). For this purpose, it uses ontography to analyze the ontology of the artistic image, which is understood as an object of quaternary polarity with multiple tensions. The results allow us to observe the possibility of new philosophical foundations on time, eidos, space, essence, beauty and autonomy of the artistic image, beyond its politicization. These conclusions lead to epistemological and aesthetic problematization, worthy of further research

Imagen y conocimiento en América Latina.

2025-05-26T17:41:41+00:00

Se incluyen artículos que analizan la imagen y el conocimiento desde diversas interrelaciones; a partir del circuito que propone la Historia del Arte tradicional, o bien desde las alteraciones que suscita el arte contemporáneo. Tanto los estudios situados de casos, como los análisis teóricos relacionados con los temas propuestos, se tratan de indagaciones propiciadas por los análisis hermenéuticos y por los estudios visuales.

Prosociality in Bogotá Through the “4 Locos of Bogotá”, Considering the Three Basic Principles

2025-05-21T19:58:21+00:00

The following article presents the results of research carried out in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, that sought to identify the influence on the behavior of people on the symbolic representation of “the four crazy” and its relationship with citizen behavior as part of the construction of identity. that should be applied in the context of a Latin American metropolis of Bogotá have been part of a cultural heritage since the 1940s, due to their anecdotes, an example of civility and urbanity. This exercise that lasted for two years worked from the qualitative approach from the type of descriptive study applying the relationship between expressions, referents and social imaginaries as they influence the prosociality of people from a clearly humanistic perspective, where it is definitely created a meaning of the citizen from its own context.

Skills in Senior Marketing Management:

2025-05-19T19:42:06+00:00

University companies must position productive projects generated from research in the contemporary market. Using a qualitative design through the participatory action research method based on a case study in senior marketing management with a group of research professors in the areas of basic sciences and economics and administration, this paper answers: What senior marketing management strategies and skills are applied in packaging management to enhance the competitiveness of the brand image of artisanal cocoa-derived products within the health and wellness sector in cosmetology? This allows us to identify, through a literature review, factors that lead to technical and marketing management competence in process skills, project management skills, alignment of skills with needs, team skills, and design sensitivity. For university companies, we need to generate the capacity to respond to customer desires and needs, as well as guarantee an institutional connection to improve knowledge between working groups and the company's skills in marketing, research and design, and engineering and manufacturing.