Hacia una dialéctica del paisaje ribereño de Buenos Aires: entre el sublime industrial y el Riachuelo como reducto pintoresco

Abstract

This article will focus on the circulation of the urban landscape representations of Buenos Aires´s coast and port between 1910 and 1936. It will analyze how these images were seen as symbols of modernization and progress. In contraposition, the Riachuelo’s coast motifs were understood as paradigms of the picturesque and idyllic of the city´s past. This dialectic of complex images within the city’s visual culture will help us understand how a local modernity imaginary was shaped.