Abstract

MOLANO VEGA, Mario Alejandro. Aesthetic experience of nature and concept of progress in the Comisión Corográfica. Hallazgos [online]. 2015, vol.12, n.23, pp.73-89. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2015.0023.004.

This paper explores two intertwined subjects in the cultural and artistic modernity: the aesthetic experience of nature and the understanding of temporality in terms of progress. We can find these subjects in the Colombian project named Comisión Corográfica -considered the cultural and scientific most important project in Colombia'n history of Nineteenth Century. The project was conceived on the context of liberal reforms and it grouped intellectuals, scientists and artists like Manuel Ancízar, Agustín Codazzi y Carmelo Fernández. The analysis will be make from the perspective of a history of ways of aesthetic experience that was formulated by Hans-Robert Jauss. From this research perspective we can ask by different ways of artistic praxis and aesthetic appreciation of world. In addition, this perspective allows understand the relation between particular ways of aesthetics experience and political processes of modernity. The paper concerns specifically the conception of nature and progress in Alexander von Humboldt and Agustín Codazzi in as much that it were determining elements in the Comisión Corográfica.

Keywords : Colombian history; aesthetic reception; intellectual history; Alexander von Humboldt; Agustín Codazzi.

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