Extravagancias organológicas: una revisión de la iconografía musical en el arte latinoamericano contemporáneo

Abstract

Musical iconography is considered a discipline that arises as an alternative analysis, descriptive and explanatory, of the musical elements figured in plastic arts. Through the evaluation of images, the researcher has obtained data that contributes to the knowledge of organological aspects, instruments and vocal executions, portraits, scenography, constitution of music groups, context and other elements that allow contribution to music history. Thus, in the mid-twentieth century this was established as a research methodology mainly for musicology. In this paper we propose a brief review of some cases of contemporary Latin American art, in which we can observe that despite the deformity of the musical elements suggested by the novel and avant-garde of the twentieth century styles, the visual arts are a source for musicologic data collection.