From the Spanish Republic to Exile: The Networks of Spanish Art

Seminars and Lectures

Maruja Mallo. El canto de las espigas. Pintura, 1939. Colección Museo Reina Sofía — Maruja Mallo. *El canto de las espigas*. Pintura, 1939. Colección Museo Reina Sofía.

Held on 08, 09, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 29, 30 abr, 07, 08, 09, 10, 13, 14 may 2013

Starting with the milestone of the Second Spanish Republic, the course explores, using an interdisciplinary and global perspective, the networks and the creative, social and political structures that gave rise to different contacts at the national and international levels. These networks and two-way paths facilitated both the circulation of artists, works and ideas, and also multiple contacts between creators, intellectuals and disciplines, all of which determined the directions that art would follow in Spain.

Starting with the milestone of the Second Spanish Republic, the course, using an interdisciplinary and global perspective, explores the networks and the creative, social and political structures that gave rise to diverse cultural connections at the national and international levels. These networks, as sites of reciprocal exchange between different countries, not only facilitated the circulation of artists, works and ideas, but also encouraged the creation of multiple contacts between artists, intellectuals and disciplines, all of which determined the directions that art would follow in Spain.

The course seeks to recover that creative memory that began with the Second Spanish Republic, became polarized during the Civil War, and diverged, generating two disjointed, and seemingly differently, currents—one inside the country and another in the life of exile. Therefore, the course is divided into four large blocks – the Republic, the Civil War, the Exile and the Franco dictatorship – which will be used to explain some of the lines of research currently in progress, while focusing on both theoretical and practical and critical aspects. In order to broaden historiographic, investigative and critical horizons concerning Spanish art and foment debate, this course is organized into three theoretical sessions, with a guided practical session in the Museum's galleries, and a round table discussion for each of the blocks within the course. The goal is to encourage reflection about a historical period that, while deemed gloomy in comparison to its margins –the Republic, on the one hand, and the transition to democracy on the other –is nonetheless closely connected to the present.

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CSIC and Museo Reina Sofía

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Credits: Three units of credit given to students enrolled in the Licenciatura program and two units of credit given to students enrolled in the new degree program (Grado) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Two units of credit given to students enrolled at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Registration:http://www.cchs.csic.es/es/content/cursorepublica
More information: postgrado@cchs.csic.es

Participants

Paula Barreiro López, History Institute, CCHS-CSIC.

Miguel Cabañas Bravo, History Institute, CCHS-CSIC.

Mónica Carabias Alonso, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes, Department of Architecture, UNAM (Mexico City).

Jesús Carrillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-Museo Reina Sofía.

Julián Díaz Sánchez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

Dolores Fernández Martínez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Carmen Gaitán Salinas, History Institute, CCHS-CSIC.

Isabel García García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Noemi de Haro García, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

María Dolores Jiménez- Blanco Carrillo de Albornoz, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Lidia Mateo Leivas, History Institute, CCHS-CSIC.

Idoia Murga Castro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

José Luis de la Nuez Santana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Javier Pérez Segura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Joan Robledo Palop, Yale University.

Program

1. The Republic

April 8, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Miguel Cabañas Bravo. Art policy in the 1930s: the activity of the Spanish Bureau of Fine Arts

April 9, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Idoia Murga Castro. The plastic and performing arts in the cultural networks of the Silver Age

April 10, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Museo Reina Sofía Collection. Room 206
Lidia Mateo Leivas: Divergent utopias

April 11, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Round table. Art and the Spanish Republic
Participants: Javier Pérez Segura (moderator), María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, Idoia Murga Castro, and Miguel Cabañas Bravo
2. The Civil War

April 15, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Joan Robledo Palop. Perceptions of political violence, shown in art and image networks

April 16, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Mónica Carabias Álvaro. "Fighting" photographers

April 17, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Museo Reina Sofía Collection. Room 206
Joan Robledo Palop. Guernica in context

April 18, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Round table. Art and the Civil War
Participants: Jesús Carrillo (moderator), Isabel García García, Mónica Carabias Álvaro, and Joan Robledo Palop
3. Exile

April 29, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Miguel Cabañas Bravo. The artists of the 1939 diaspora and their arrival in Mexico

April 30, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Idoia Murga Castro. New cartographies: interdisciplinarity in the scenarios of exile

May 7, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Museo Reina Sofía Collection. Room 206
Carmen Gaitán Salinas. From the Civil War to exile: the various destinations, as seen through the Museo Reina Sofía Collection

May 8, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Round table. Art and exile
Participants: Dolores Fernández Martínez (moderator), Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz Funes, Miguel Cabañas Bravo, and Idoia Murga Castro.
4. The Franco dictatorship

May 9, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Paula Barreiro López. Militant critique and avant-garde: between experimentation and engagement

May 10, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Noemi de Haro García. Modernised dissidence, tolerated dissidence.

May 13, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Museo Reina Sofía Collection. Room 411
Paula Barreiro López. Art during the Franco dictatorship

May 14, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200
Round table. Art and the dictatorship
Participants: Julián Díaz Sánchez (moderator), José Luis de la Nuez, Paula Barreiro López, and Noemí de Haro García.