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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.
1904
General strike, 1904
Dr. Alfredo Palacios, a candidate for the national Socialist Party, obtains a Congress seat, becoming the first socialist to join a South American parliament.
Alfredo Nicolás Guttero (1882-1932) leaves for Europe. As he observes the Porteño coast from his ship, he draws a sun down at the river, a piece which has become part of a private collection in Buenos Aires.
Alfredo Guttero. El último fulgor de B. Aires, 1904
