Analysis of the swastikas published in number 3 of ACA (The magazine of Asociación Cultural Aguascalentense)

Abstract

The magazine of Asociación Cultural Aguascalentense, ACA, published 5 issues between 1952 and 1956. We could say that there are left-wing essays, but some images are quite the opposite. In the third number of ACA (1954), the title page is accompanied by a pair of non-justified swastikas, neither at a textual nor a visual level; on the other hand, one of the writers who appears the most is Alfredo de Lara Isaacs (Aguascalientes, Ags., 1919-1972), who in the same issue published "Ezequiel A. Chávez: Apostolado y símbolo." This one, at a textual level, opens with an epigraph by Romain Rolland, who was a left-wing non-fascist intellectual; on a visual level, it opens with another pair of swastikas, which could speak of a far-right-wing political position. This study has aimed to review the symbolic implications that swastikas have in number 3 of ACA and to conjecture the possible contradiction between the Isaacs text and the image we have talked about.