Survival of an Alegory: America as Independent, Merchant and Civilized

The article sheds light on how within the plastic arts, a single allegory is able to suffer a number of changes through the posible routes that it follows in order to survive in different periods and geographical spaces. In this case the allegory is America, and the ways of survival are the contribu...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Oviedo Salazar, Mauricio G.
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2015
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositório:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/22582
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/escena/article/view/22582
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:history of art
iconography
allegory
America
Costa Rica
historia del arte
iconografía
alegoría
América
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Resumo:The article sheds light on how within the plastic arts, a single allegory is able to suffer a number of changes through the posible routes that it follows in order to survive in different periods and geographical spaces. In this case the allegory is America, and the ways of survival are the contributors of the historical process of construction of three Costa Rican objects, namely: a coin of 1850 containing the figure of an Indian, an industrial Brand of a drugstore that appropriates the design of the aforementioned coin, and a sculpture made around 1905, orginally located on the terrace of a house in San José.