Abstract

CARIDE BARTRONS, Horacio. The body and city: An organic metaphor to Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century. An. Inst. Arte Am. Investig. Estét. Mario J. Buschiazzo [online]. 2011, vol.41, n.1, pp.37-52. ISSN 2362-2024.

The aim of this work is to establish and ponder the early conditions of the rise of the metaphor of the body as cultural paradigm, as resonance of a medical - political discourse, was one of the strongest principles for the organization and modernization in the city of Buenos Aires, between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It has operated with a selection of authors that can be considered representative of the period, ranging from the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1871, to the celebrations of the centenary of the May Revolution. Far from presenting a single view or monolithic, the pictures they had on the binomial-company town, offers some of the best representations of the changing processes to which was attached the idea of Nation and the idea of the city, but with the metaphor of body, health or illness as narrative.

Keywords : Buenos Aires; XIXth Century; Metaphor.

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