Desafíos (Dec 2012)
The cultural magazines as spaces of resistence in the lasta argentinian militar dictatorship. From the “El Expreso Imaginario” to “El Porteño”, 1976 – 1983
Abstract
Although they were a few, there were places during the military dictatorship, which produced innovative cultural goods, in continuity with experiences of the artistic avant-garde in the sixties. Alongside the political and military repression they could articulate in their environment groups identified with alternative aesthetic codes, in opposition to the dominant culture in the period. The first one of the aces we examine in the article, El Expreso Imaginario is a privileged place where we may regard the origins of the traits of that social space. Towards the end of the dictatorship, another one like El Porteño, marks a new era, even if we can establish various continuities with the first one. The circulation places of these ideas and practices were often taking place in cellars and other hiding places. Is that because they take the literal sense of underground in the eighties to groups who having been part of that story or not, were willing to receive his inspiring legacy. Between both magazines we fer identifies the transition from one state of the field to another, identifying the evolution of these zone of the culture field.
