Sur (magazine)

Sur was first published in 1931, with the assistance of a multidisciplinary team of collaborators. Its founder and main backer was Victoria Ocampo,{{cite journal|author=John King The final issue of the magazine, no. 371, was published in 1992,{{cite journal|author=Camila Sutherland|title="El pájaro de cuatro notas": the reception of Argentine women writers and artists' work in avant-garde magazines (1920–1930)|journal=Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies|date=2017|volume=23 == Political and philosophical stance ==

At the time, it had a clear anti-Nazi profile. Its financial problems simultaneously increased due to its large investments in Sur, with a net loss of 85,000 Argentine pesos on the 25th anniversary of the magazine. José Bianco served as editorial secretary between 1938 and 1961, when Victoria Ocampo decided to remove him from his post following his visit to Cuba, where the Cuban Revolution had triumphed, and his participation as a juror in the Casa de las Américas Prize, to which Ocampo had not been invited. This conception of objectives opposed both the aesthetic and ideological work of Victoria Ocampo. The magazine rivalled Contorno, by Ismael and David Viñas, which positioned itself against "the establishment of the cultural oligarchy of the magazine Sur". Sur adopted a clearly anti-Peronist stance. The Peronist critic Daniel Santoro expressed this view in 2006: ==References==