%0 Journal Article
%T Traveling Artists in America: Visions and Views
%A Diener
%A Pablo
%J Culture & History Digital Journal
%D 2012
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas
%R 10.3989/chdj.2012.m106
%X Visual registers of Latin America acquired new characteristics at the dawning of the 19th century. Alongside the pointedly secular practice of the scientific Enlightenment, naturalistic in character, there emerged an artistic current that produced images with a strong subjective quality. This American iconography of the 19th century was the work of traveling artists. In the exercise of their work, painters and drawers were led through modern esthetical premises that proposed an amalgam of artistic activity and the production of scientific knowledge. This article intends to venture into that genre of the arts based on a study of the theoretical context that sustains it, observing the range of themes it covered. Los registros visuales de la Am¨¦rica ib¨¦rica adquirieron un perfil nuevo con los albores del siglo XIX. Paralelamente a la pr¨¢ctica m¨¢s que secular de la ilustraci¨®n cient¨ªfica de car¨¢cter naturalista surgi¨® una vertiente art¨ªstica que produjo un tipo de im¨¢genes con una fuerte carga subjetiva. Esa iconograf¨ªa americana decimon¨®nica fue obra de los artistas viajeros. En el ejercicio de su tarea, pintores y dibujantes fueron conducidos por premisas est¨¦ticas modernas, que propon¨ªan una amalgama del quehacer art¨ªstico con la producci¨®n de conocimiento cient¨ªfico. Este art¨ªculo propone una incursi¨®n en ese g¨¦nero de las bellas artes a partir de un estudio del contexto te¨®rico que la sustenta, observando el abanico tem¨¢tico que abarc¨®.
%K travel art
%K American iconography
%K picturesque travels
%K topographic paintings
%K art and science
%K Alexander von Humboldt
%K arte de viajeros
%K iconograf¨ªa americana
%K viajes pintorescos
%K pintura topogr¨¢fica
%K arte y ciencia
%K Alexander von Humboldt
%U http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/16/47