Abstract
This study discusses both the concept of the Real Marvellous, elaborated by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, and its revolutionary potential from an unprecedented approach: a cultural analysis focused on the role played by vision and visuality in Carpentier's interdisciplinary thought before 1950. I analyse the perceptual model built to support his concept, its relationship with the observer's positioning, the inevitable mythical and historical-geographical projection that resulted from assuming such positioning as gaze and as epistemology, and its links with the interwars modernist preaching.
| Translated title of the contribution | Not to See the Marvellous but to Engage with History and Myth: Alejo Carpentier and the Real Marvellous as an Epistemological Point of View in Painting, Music and Literature |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Title of host publication | Arte, artista y campo artístico |
| Subtitle of host publication | Concepciones, inscripciones y poéticas en el contexto latinoamericano |
| Editors | Luz Ainaí Morales Pino, Elena Grau-Lleveria, Fernando Villegas Torres |
| Place of Publication | Lima, Peru |
| Publisher | Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos |
| Pages | 307-330 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-9972-46-682-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Alejo Carpentier
- Real Maravilloso
- vision
- Visuality
- Cultural Analysis
- Baroque