Amauta

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26th edition of Amauta, September 1929

Amauta was a Peruvian literary magazine founded by José Carlos Mariategui in Lima in September 1926 and edited by him until 1930.

Surname

"Amauta" is a word from the Quechua family of languages ​​that denotes a person of great wisdom. Translated it means professor or master .

history

Amauta was founded in 1926 as a magazine intended to renew the generation of avant-garde newspapers. The magazine succeeded in this renewal of the avant-garde mainly in Latin America, where it soon became well known. Their average circulation was between 3,000 and 4,000 copies.

The magazine gained international circulation and recognition. Intellectuals and writers such as Jorge Luis Borges , Miguel de Unamuno , André Breton and Alberto Hidalgo published in it . The Amauta magazine provided the platform for many new intellectual currents in Europe within Peru, including psychoanalysis and cubism , but also for indigenous art .

meaning

The magazine Amauta was considered to be one of the most complete publications in terms of art, culture, science and politics of its time, as it did not set itself the task of just representing a specific population group, but a stream of the minds at a time when desire after renewal seemed to get stronger every day, a platform wanted to offer. This approach comes from the fact that Mariátegui perceived only small differences between the various modern currents.

literature

  • Volker Hovestadt: Jose Carlos Mariategui and his magazine “Amauta” (Lima, 1926–1930) . Father Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0928-9 .

exhibition

  • Avant-garde network. Amauta and Latin America, 1926–1930 , Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , February - May 2019 (followed by Lima, Mexico, Austin)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c José Carlos Mariátegui - Presentación de Amauta (Spanish, PDF)
  2. ↑ Elke Mader: Art. Amauta . In: Myths in Latin America. Ethnological myth research , accessed on September 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Eleonore von Oertzen, Ulrich Goedeking: Peru . CH Beck, Munich, 3rd, completely revised edition 2004, ISBN 3-406-50457-4 , p. 76.
  4. ↑ Review in The Economist : The wisdom of José Carlos Mariátegui , April 17, 2019 (English).