Estudio sobre la modernidad en la configuración de arte ecuatoriano de la segunda mitad del siglo xx a través del pensamiento filosófico de Bolívar Echeverría

Abstract

First, the author outlines the content from the Echeverria’s main contribution, the baroque ethos. This contribution has consequences in the art because the art is allied with modernity ruptures. He further submits that large ruptures Echeverria proposes to modernity throughout history, and establishes a link between them and art. Secondly the author focuses on modern discourses of civilization and culture that have allowed the construction of an artificial spirituality for art. She continues his study with an analysis of how the discourse of spirituality in art determines the canon and the rupture. Finally, she does a brief analysis of the four ethos and its links to the artistic canon. Thus, the realistic ethos is related to canonical forms; and these forms are related to market. The crafts, community tourism and popular culture are examples of how aesthetic forms can be read from the romantic ethos. The classic ethos is related to fashion items and other goods. These goods not are art; but we are attracted by its beauty. And the baroque ethos is still associated with the religious rites in the Latin American world. In the last chapter, and with all the theoretical tools developed in the first and second chapters, the author analysis Ecuadorian art from the second half of the twentieth century.