Institutional strategies concerning Bibliography of Argentinean Colonial Art by Mario Buschiazzo (1947)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the book Bibliography of Argentinean Colonial Art regarding the process of institutionalization and consolidation of colonial art studies at the University of Buenos Aires. Following the specificities of its format in the historiographical context of the period, I sustain that the book had a strategic role in the reorientation of artistic studies proposed by the mentioned university’s Institute of American Art and Aesthetic Studies. Besides professional aspirations pursued by its author, expressed in the exercise of the bibliographical review, the book constituted an effective format for the local and transnational scene regarding the consolidation of Buschiazzo's profile as an expert, establishing his own historiographical production space.