{"title":"The Road to Buenos Aires Is Paved with Good Design: Worldmaking Fantasies and the Latin American Industrial Design Exhibition","authors":"Patricio del Real","doi":"10.1080/00043079.2023.2142893","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1970, Argentinian industrialists and cultural entrepreneurs sought to harness industrial design to reenergize a stalled economy. In collaboration with the International Council and the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art, they worked to bring to Buenos Aires more than 400 objects of MoMA’s design collection. Spearheaded by Emilio Ambasz, the exhibition 20th Century Industrial Design would effectively reproduce the New York institution in Buenos Aires. Amid entropic forces dissolving the social cohesion of Argentine society, MoMA sought to champion a revised version of Good Design in a cultural battle for the souls of Latin American consumers.","PeriodicalId":46667,"journal":{"name":"ART BULLETIN","volume":"105 1","pages":"113 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ART BULLETIN","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2023.2142893","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT In 1970, Argentinian industrialists and cultural entrepreneurs sought to harness industrial design to reenergize a stalled economy. In collaboration with the International Council and the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art, they worked to bring to Buenos Aires more than 400 objects of MoMA’s design collection. Spearheaded by Emilio Ambasz, the exhibition 20th Century Industrial Design would effectively reproduce the New York institution in Buenos Aires. Amid entropic forces dissolving the social cohesion of Argentine society, MoMA sought to champion a revised version of Good Design in a cultural battle for the souls of Latin American consumers.
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The Art Bulletin publishes leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, museums, and other institutions. From its founding in 1913, the journal has published, through rigorous peer review, scholarly articles and critical reviews of the highest quality in all areas and periods of the history of art. Articles take a variety of methodological approaches, from the historical to the theoretical. In its mission as a journal of record, The Art Bulletin fosters an intensive engagement with intellectual developments and debates in contemporary art-historical practice. It is published four times a year in March, June, September, and December