La estética neogótica en Cuenca. El caso del artista Eduardo Moscoso y el Prohibido Centro Cultural

Abstract

This study seeks to establish the symbolic and metaphorical elements as well as the aesthetic categories present in the erotic, lively, thanatological, exotic, antireligious, and narcissistic genres within a syncretic plot. In such genres the artist Eduardo Moscoso’s creative production, and the situation of the Prohibido Centro Cultural [Forbidden Cultural Center] in Cuenca-Ecuador, owned by the mentioned artist, fit. Toward this aim, this thesis realizes a descriptive, analytical, and interpretive study of the most representative of his work. For this task, we employ analogies which consider the frame of the conceptual and historical aspects regarding aesthetics and its categories, the frame of specific aesthetic features of the neogothic current and the neo-baroque movement, and also the link that connects neogothic and neo-baroque with the so-called vanitas genre