Abstract

MANCILLA CARRASCO, Pablo. El mapa invertido de Joaquín Torres-García y las ciencias sociales de América Latina. Hacia un símbolo estético del pensar latinoamericano. Desde el Sur [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.1, e0014. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/des-1501-2023-0014.

The following essay aims to investigate the aesthetic proposal of inverting the map of South America by Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan artist), and its relations and parallelisms with Latin America Social Science in the 20th century (1930 onwards), primarily with decolonial thinking (mainly in the gaze of Anibal Quijano and Boaventura de Sousa Santos). What are the relachionships, parallels and intersections between the art and the social sciences of Latin America in the 20th century? Was it sought to "invert to map" in the social sciences of the 30s and 40s (decade of creation of the work)? How does it become an aesthetic symbol present in the new positions of the social sciences of Latin America? The questions presented seek to open reflections in relation to the social sciences and art of the 20th century, positioning historical view of the ideas of "south" proposed by the disciplines.

Keywords : Inverted map; social sciences of Latin America; decolonial thinking; aesthetic symbol.

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