... in painting as practiced by Alberto Greco and others. They also responded in various ways to disillusionment with the presidency of Arturo Frondizi, to political violence, and to tensions surrounding the survival of the prohibited movement of Juan Perón. Frank focuses particularly on Noé’s Serie...

...This chapter discusses Juan Domingo Perón, who virtually wiped out the free market economy in Argentina. He replaced it with an economy that was planned and regulated, and had a massive public sector of nationalized industries and social services. Despite his restraint from imposing land reform...

...This chapter examines the dialogue initiated by the Argentine government of Juan Domingo Perón with the popular technical imagination, at a time when both state policies and a nascent mass culture sought to adapt to the novelties and scientific and technological challenges of the second postwar...