Inteligencia Bohemia, an art magazine in the Montevidean nineteenth century

Abstract

Montevideo cultural magazines played a valuable role in the production, spreading and discussion of ideas and projects in the end of the XIX and beginning of the XX century. During this period and with different degrees of intensity, these magazines turned into remarkable spaces for intelectuals, publicists and journatlists to think about themselves, renovating the writing style, the reading materials and encouraging highly significant cultural programs and debates.
They articulated both individual and collective paths, having an impact in the aesthetic and cultural modern Motevideo scene Bohemia magazine comes up in the 1900s, a brilliant period during which artists and intellectuals seeked to reperesent Uruguayan culture.
In this context, Bohemia claims to be an art publication integrated by young and well-known intelectuals like Leoncio Lasso de la Vega, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Ángel Falco, Delmira Agustini and Hermenegildo Sábat, among others. This study focuses on the intellectual networks created in and through the magazine with other River Plate publications.
The bonds weaved among these publicists and intellectuals suggest a cultural program that reached the whole River Plate cultural environment.