Isabel in the Land of Beautiful Promises: Beauty Pageants and Commercial Modelling in the Mass Culture (Buenos Aires, 1954-1959)

The article explores the role played by female beauty in Argentine mass culture by drawing upon Isabel Sarli’s trajectory. In doing so it analyses practices, meanings and visual representations coming from two types of mass cultural commodities: beauty contents and commercial modelling. Drawing on a...

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Autor principal: Basilio Fabris, Ailin
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuariohistoria/article/view/40607
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Sumario:The article explores the role played by female beauty in Argentine mass culture by drawing upon Isabel Sarli’s trajectory. In doing so it analyses practices, meanings and visual representations coming from two types of mass cultural commodities: beauty contents and commercial modelling. Drawing on advertising, photography, editorial office archive, film and women’s magazines, newscasts, and memoirs it argues that beauty notions were transformed into professional and commercial practice as a result of its connection to the market and the convergence of mass consumption technologies.