“... for those who have eyes to see.” Martín Noel, urbanism from a connaisseur
Few connaisseurs in Latin America as Martín Noel. With a taste formed in European classrooms, but assigned to the nourishing role of traveling, he uses sight, descriptions and adjectives to make aesthetic judgments attribute filiations and, even, isolate cultural essences printed in physiognomies he...
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ojs-article-29842021-05-28T20:28:22Z “... for those who have eyes to see.” Martín Noel, urbanism from a connaisseur “...para quién tenga ojos para ver”. Martín Noel, el urbanismo de un connaisseur Rigotti, Ana María Urban planning hispanic American art physiognomy travel art history Urbanismo arte hispanoamericano fisionómica viaje historia del arte Few connaisseurs in Latin America as Martín Noel. With a taste formed in European classrooms, but assigned to the nourishing role of traveling, he uses sight, descriptions and adjectives to make aesthetic judgments attribute filiations and, even, isolate cultural essences printed in physiognomies he discerns, mainly, in urban landscapes. The paper emphasizes the importance of travel as experience and as methodological substrate of Noel as an art historian, and traces sources, arguments and references to Spengler and Ruskin for his theoretical contribution: the notion of “fusion” as the seed of an autonomous colonial art. As a member of a Building Aesthetics Commission behind the Organic Project of 1925, he uses this notion of fusion to justify, in the name of an essential physiognomy of Buenos Aires, a possible reconciliation between its condition of capital city with a disturbingly cosmopolitan present. Pocos ejemplos en Latinoamérica de un connaisseur como Martín Noel. Con un gusto formado en aulas europeas, pero adjudicado al rol nutritivo de los viajes, usa la vista y un lenguaje sustentando en la descripción y los adjetivos para emitir juicios estéticos, adjudicar filiaciones y, aún, laudar sobre esencias culturales impresas en fisonomías que se discierne, sobre todo, en las ciudades como paisaje. El artículo hace énfasis en el viaje como experiencia y sustrato metodológico del Noel historiador, y rastrea la matriz de su aporte teórico –la noción de fusión como germen de un arte colonial autónomo- en fuentes, estrategias expositivas, argumentos y referencias a Spengler y Ruskin. A esta noción de fusión recurre, ya como miembro de la Comisión de Estética Edilicia (CEE), redactora del Proyecto Orgánico de 1925, para fundamentar, en nombre de la fisonomía esencial de Buenos Aires, la posible conciliación de su condición de ciudad capital con un presente inquietantemente cosmopolita. Universidad ORT Uruguay 2020-11-19 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf text/html https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/anales-de-investigacion-en-arquitectura/article/view/2984 10.18861/ania.2020.10.2.2984 Anales de Investigación en Arquitectura; Vol. 10 No. 2 (2020); 7-26 Anales de Investigación en Arquitectura; Vol. 10 Núm. 2 (2020); 7-26 Anales de Investigación en Arquitectura; v. 10 n. 2 (2020); 7-26 2301-1513 2301-1505 10.18861/ania.2020.10.2 spa https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/anales-de-investigacion-en-arquitectura/article/view/2984/3186 https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/anales-de-investigacion-en-arquitectura/article/view/2984/3187 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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Few connaisseurs in Latin America as Martín Noel. With a taste formed in European classrooms, but assigned to the nourishing role of traveling, he uses sight, descriptions and adjectives to make aesthetic judgments attribute filiations and, even, isolate cultural essences printed in physiognomies he discerns, mainly, in urban landscapes. The paper emphasizes the importance of travel as experience and as methodological substrate of Noel as an art historian, and traces sources, arguments and references to Spengler and Ruskin for his theoretical contribution: the notion of “fusion” as the seed of an autonomous colonial art. As a member of a Building Aesthetics Commission behind the Organic Project of 1925, he uses this notion of fusion to justify, in the name of an essential physiognomy of Buenos Aires, a possible reconciliation between its condition of capital city with a disturbingly cosmopolitan present. |
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