Poligramas (Jun 2021)

Aesthetic paradigms of the Colombian theater in the twentieth century

  • Mauricio Doménici

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25100/poligramas.v0i52.11419
Journal volume & issue
no. 52
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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The article is a reflection on the times and styles of Colombian theater in the 20th century. It is not so much a historical account, neither exhaustive, nor descriptive about the facts,but a theoretical proposal, a vision, a hypothesis about the whole of a process, in which some coordinates are established and certain cultural and artistic factors that have marked the evolution of this theater are systematized. Consequently, we postulate the existence of four paradigms: The Spanish theater, the modern theater, the theater of collective creation and the post-modern theater. In each of them, certain formal patterns can be identified, a poetic imaginary and a social conception. The idea is to draw an overall panorama, the thick lines of the path that the national theater and its times have followed.

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