Vicente Fatone, Architecture and Dance: Edition and Introduction

Abstract

In the writing rescued here, originally published by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 1936, Vicente Fatone (Buenos Aires, 1903-1962) conceives dance and architecture as privileged modes of access to the absolute. The Argentine philosopher identifies architecture, as spatial infinity, with asceticism and dance, as temporal infinity: while the first is understood as the establishment of a world, the second is considered as an exercise of freedom, which expresses the divine that inhabits in the human being through a dynamic principle.