In the framework of the seminar “1959-1985, au prisme de la Biennale de Paris”, this session aims to discuss the symbolic, cultural and political value of the Paris Biennale from the 1950s to the 1970s, and its reception in two totalitarian contexts on both sides of the Iron Curtain: Spain and Poland.
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Seminar in La Plata, Argentina. 6-7 April
The seminar Transatlantic Episodes (1950-1977): Crossings between art, politics and culture during the Cold War in Spain and Latin America will be given by Paula Barreiro López at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Multimedia updates: Questioning the great divide(s) during the Cold War
The sound recording of the workshop “Questioning the great divide(s) during the Cold War: a tool box for a transnational history of art” (Universitat de Barcelona, 6-7 March 2018) are now available in our multimedia section.
News from the Multimedia section
Check out the latest entries in our Multimedia section! Audio and video archives on art and activism in 1970s Spain, and the participation of Eastern European artists in the Paris Biennial.
Upcoming: REG|AC on “Networks and Circulations in the Cold War”
Issue 5 of REG|AC journal on “Cold War networks and circulations: Cross-cultural Dialogues and Practices throughout the Global South (1957-1991)”, will be published in spring-summer 2018. Here is a preview of the authors and topics addressed in this special issue.
Comrades in Arms against Dictatorship – Research seminar in Edinburgh
On January 25th, Paula Barreiro López’s conference at the Edinburgh College of Art will address the processes of negotiation amongst art critics, artists and cultural agents during Late Francoism (1959–1975), highlighting questionings raised by the link between art and (left-wing( ideology.
Le défi de Caliban – Encounters and debate at ENS Paris
[:en]On 18 and 19 January 2018, Artl@s project in collaboration with other organizations, organizes the encounter “Le defi de Caliban” (Caliban’s challenge) at the ENS Paris. Addressing artistic and literary debates on “the South”, this encounter will raise the question of its definitions through the lens of creation, examining the challenges and limits of such discourses.[:]
Multimedia updates: Reinventing art’s faculties
The sound recording of the seminar “Reinventing art’s faculties: dissident art and political militancy in the seventies” (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 7 November 2017) are now available in our multimedia section.
50th Congress of the AICA in Paris
In the framework of the 50th Congress of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in Paris, Paula Barreiro López will take part in the panel “Paradigmatic shifts in the AICA’s history” with a lecture about Spanish art criticism in the 1960s.