Abstract

DIAZ MACHADO, Kisimira  and  MOYA PADILLA, Nereyda. DEBATE ARTISTIC VANGUARDS VS SOCIALIST REALISM. : VISION OF JOSE ANTONIO PORTUONDO. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.4, pp.164-170. ISSN 2218-3620.

This article aims at assessing the aesthetic thinking of José Antonio Portuondo (1911-1996), an intellectual born in Santiago de Cuba city, from his conceptions within the cultural debate of the Cuban Revolution, in which the divergences between artistic avant-gardes and socialist realism were decisive in understanding how our aesthetic thinking was conceived. The circumstances in which Jose Antonio Portuondo developed his intellectual work, in Cuba both pre and post-revolutionary, led him to assume positions, sometimes flexible and other far more radical about the aesthetic phenomenon, in his performance as a pedagogue, rector of the Universidad de Oriente and Head of the Institute of Literature and Linguistics of Cuba. His literature production is analyzed from the historical-logical and hermeneutical method, to unravel his conceptions around the aesthetic from the great humanist, teacher, essayist and critic who he was. José Antonio Portuondo is part of the history of the Cuban aesthetic thinking. Understanding his ideas from an updated vision means looking critically at our history and the context in which he developed as an intellectual.

Keywords : Aesthetic thinking; artistic vanguards; socialist realism.

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