Roberto J. Payró
Subtitle: crítico de arte
By: Jorge Enrique Severino ; Jorge Alberto Santucho [editor]
Publisher: Editorial Dunken
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9789878506234
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Argentine Authors; Biography; Modern Art; History; Art criticism
Description: Roberto Jorge Payró (1867-1928) was a prolific writer who excelled in all the genres in which he used his pen. This book shows him in his role as a journalist, with pioneering art critical texts in newspapers and literary magazines on the work of painters and sculptors presented in the most significant exhibitions that took place in Buenos Aires and in Europe between the late 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century. Argentine artists such as Eduardo Sívori (1847 - 1918), Ángel Della Valle (1852-1903), Ernesto de la Cárcova (1866-1927), Augusto Ballerini (1857-1902), Eduardo Schiaffino (1858-1935), Severo Rodríguez Etchart (1864-1903), Arturo Dresco (1875-1961) and Lucio Correa Morales (1852-1923), among others; and foreigners such as Francisco de Goya, JoaquínTorres García, William Degouve de Nuncques, John Massin, M. H. Meunier, Victor Rousseau, Ignacio Zuloaga and the brothers De Zubiaurre (Ramon & Valentin), are some of the important artists on whom he wrote, in detail and eloquence, meticulous chronicles. This book includes all the publications in which he collaborated, providing a comprehensive view of his critical work. Includes an appendix of reviews with complete articles and a large number of notes that clarify doubts and expand essential concepts, this work collaborates with the knowledge of one of the most captivating stages of art and artistic criticism in Argentina. And is extended and complemented with the exhibitions that Payró attended in various cities of Europe, and that he commented on in the Buenos Aires media to keep the local public constantly informed
Table of contents: title: A modo de prólogo; title: Encuentros; title: Primer encuentro. Las fatigas de la siembra; title: Segundo encuentro. En el Salón de 1894; title: Tercer encuentro. Unas notas; title: Quinto encuentro. En el Salón de 1896; title: Sexto encuentro. Últimas exposiciones de 1901; title: Séptimo encuentro. Degouve; title: Octavo encuentro. Una exposición en Burdeos; title: Apéndice de críticas.