Vida, época y obra de Manuel Belgrano

This book aims at following a path of tensions, analysing the forms born by the internationalization projects Argentine art and artistic avant-gardes adopted in the sixties. The author describes the conditions that paved the way for their conception, the strategies to accomplish them, the images that best suited their representation and the antagonistic and opposing discourses, which beat the rhythm of the controversies that characterized the period.

"Lavishly produced biography of the Argentine who carried the patriot cause to the interior provinces, Paraguay, and Upper Peru. Includes brief, thoughtful pieces on such topics as iconography, genealogy, economic and political thought, military organization, and Belgrano's relations with women"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Dem crata por convicci n intelectual, arist crata por sus sentimientos, Marcelo T. de Alvear es una figura peculiar de la historia argentina. Esta obra traza una nueva imagen del dirigente radical y presidente de la Rep blica Argentina de 1922 a 1928. de sus p ginas surge una personalidad contradictoria y l cida, Para quien el radicalismo era parte de un proyecto de afianzamiento institucional de la Rep blica.