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La Boca
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Florencia Battiti and Cintia Mezza
August 2006
August 2006
We are about to venture into the fascinating world of the famed La Boca artists. This dossier reviews the gravitations of the modernization process of Argentine art throughout the last one hundred years, and the role that its growing cultural institutions played along the way. This investigative work has been authored by Florencia Battiti, and assisted by Cintia Mezza.
Cronología
This chronology documents the main events that took place in and around the La Boca neighborhood, and describes the artists who developed their work from the end of the XIX century to the mid century 1950’s.
Towards the end of the XVIII century, La Boca del Riachuelo was a deserted extension of land, and due to its flooded terrain it was covered by lagoons and dense vegetation. At that time, there were no means of transport that reached that river front land. In 1856, a new transportation line powered by horse connected Plaza Victoria with La Boca.
