Abstract

MONTERO FAYAD, Daniel. Juan García Ponce: dissent above all. Lit. mex [online]. 2023, vol.34, n.1, pp.63-93.  Epub Feb 13, 2023. ISSN 2448-8216.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2022.34.1.7900s42x3.

From 1959 to 1968, Juan García Ponce published some of his most important art criticism, as well as collections of essays, in a context of the tension between the so-called Mexican School of Painting and young abstract painters such as Manuel Felguérez and Vicente Rojo; tension that became visible due to the Inter-American Biennials of 58 and 60, the Esso Salon of 1965, and the exhibition Confrontación 66. In his critiques, García Ponce moves to develop fundamental concepts for his writing such as abstraction, rupture, people, and culture, many of them based on ideas from authors such as Worringer, Marcuse, and Bataille. In this article I propose to show that from these concepts and authors, the writer raises an idea of ​​rupture that will lead to a critique of modernity in Mexico, in order to propose a theory of criticism based on artistic freedom as a necessity in all creation.

Keywords : Juan García Ponce; art criticism; culture; dissent; rupture; freedom.

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