Thursday, 25 January at 5:15 pm (Hunter Lecture Theatre, Hunter Building, 74 Lauriston Place, ECA).
Prof Andrew Patrizio will chair Dr Paula Barreiro López (University of Barcelona), who will speak about art and political activism during Late Francoism.
Her talk “Comrades in Arms against Dictatorship: the Avant-garde, Art Criticism and the Franco Regime” focuses on the development of a perspective linking art and political meaning, and the inevitable processes of negotiation that it entailed amongst art critics, artists and cultural agents during Late Francoism (1959–1975). This period, characterised by rapid modernisation, would trigger a reflection about the nature and role of culture within a changing society. In the artistic sphere, a new debate emerged over questions concerning the link between art and (Left) ideology, analysing the role that the avant-garde could and should play in the social sphere.
All are welcome, and there will be a drinks reception in the John Higgitt Gallery after the seminar.
For the full list of seminars and more information on the speakers, please see the ECA website: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/history-art-research-seminar-series