Archives and Aesthetics: Printing Arts in the Planographic Space (Buenos Aires, 1917)

Abstract

Through six technical plans dated in 1917 and guarded by the Archivo Histórico de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, dependent on the Dirección General Patrimonio, Museos y Casco Histórico, representing five graphic establishments located in different neighborhoods, a series of elements of their visuality will be reviewed. Also understood as a conceptual unit, they will be related to the evolution of Buenos Aires' urban layout, with the world of work in the field, specialties and their excluded, and with new technologies in the times of Yrigoyen and the Great War. In the absence of the files that originally accompanied them, these graphic works, exponents of our visual culture, became a novel device to interpret their time and space, and retrace large and small stories.