The article compares the Latin American magazines Punto Final and Tricontinental, focusing on two periods: the 1960s/1970s and the 1990s. The former represents a moment of editorial growth that coincided with the political surge of the so-called New Left, connected to revolutionary organisations and movements of national liberation in the Third World. In contrast, the second period signals a crisis for the global Left and the opening of a new cycle marked by neoliberal reforms and the collapse of the Soviet-led bloc. The article traces the editorial strategies deployed by both magazines in their articulation of a distinctly revolutionary political project by concentrating on the graphic dimension. Through an analysis of their respective editorial teams, networks, institutional frameworks, and material conditions, we will demonstrate that the New Left constituted a mixture of orthodox and heterodox political configurations also in visual terms. At the same time, we inquire about the afterlives of these political and editorial projects, an aspect that remains largely unexplored in the literature.
The article compares the Latin American magazines Punto Final and Tricontinental, focusing on two periods: the 1960s/1970s and the 1990s. The former represents a moment of editorial growth that coincided with the political surge of the so-called New Left, connected to revolutionary organisations and movements of national liberation in the Third World. In contrast, the second period signals a crisis for the global Left and the opening of a new cycle marked by neoliberal reforms and the collapse of the Soviet-led bloc. The article traces the editorial strategies deployed by both magazines in their articulation of a distinctly revolutionary political project by concentrating on the graphic dimension. Through an analysis of their respective editorial teams, networks, institutional frameworks, and material conditions, we will demonstrate that the New Left constituted a mixture of orthodox and heterodox political configurations also in visual terms. At the same time, we inquire about the afterlives of these political and editorial projects, an aspect that remains largely unexplored in the literature.