Abstract

AGUILAR., Andrea Moreno. José Gabriel Navarro and his contributions on art, education and national identity in the context of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress of 1915. Índex [online]. 2017, n.4, pp.31-40. ISSN 2477-9199.

Several studies of Navarro's work have mainly reviewed and discussed his contributions and dissertations on the so-called Quito’s colonial art. In this occasion, this paper seeks to contribute on the understanding of Navarro as an intellectual of the first half of the twentieth century. As well as, understand his actions in the artistic local field and in the construction of a cultural discourse of an American art within a Pan-American context. For this purpose, the proposal about an artistic education, written by Pedro Pablo Traversari, José Gabriel Navarro and José María Durán, is used as a central document. In addition, the epistolary resource of the José Gabriel Navarro Archive, of the Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Pólit, reveals the dialogues at an intellectual level of a utopian and homogenizing configuration of a vernacular art. This resource exposes Navarro’s acquaintances between cultural actors of the first decades of the twentieth century.

Keywords : Ecuadorian art; Latin American Art; artistic education; national identity.

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