Boa (Buenos Aires, 1958-1960) Magazine, a Surrealism Expanded towards Informalism and Existentialism

Abstract

Boa (Buenos Aires, 1958-1960) is a magazine recognized by Literature History as part of the collection of little magazines that came out in the mid-xx Century, and have disseminated and imported Surrealism in Argentina. However, through its pages, we noticed that it transitions from Surrealism to Informalism and metaphysic poetry. This paper analyzes that transition considering the magazine as an intermedial object where the senses of visual arts and poetry come together, and it also notices an overlapped influence of existentialism in its texts as a crucial key that allows the transition between the different tendencies.