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Culture and Arts in Contemporary Spain - 2nd semester

Objectives

a) To develop in-depth knowledge of twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish Arts and their images and narratives.
b) To acquire knowledge of the various contexts that determine that cultural and artistic output.
c) To acquire in-depth technical knowledge and methodological skills to research and develop applied projects in relation to specific artistic and cultural studies within the modern day Spanish State, respecting its cultural and linguistic plurality.
d) To study the subjects proposed with a view to producing personal research.
e) To develop knowledge of criticism related to the themes studied.
f) To produce analysis and theoretical reflection, applying the knowledge acquired.

General characterization

Code

722111062

Credits

10

Responsible teacher

Pedro Santa María

Hours

Weekly - 3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Spanish

Prerequisites

None.

Bibliography

Corpus de partida /the initial body of work:
MADRID: o romance La noche de los tiempos, de Antonio Muñoz Molina (2009); a pintura e os desenhos de Antonio López; os filmes de Pedro Almodóvar
BARCELONA: o romance La ciudad de los prodigios, de Eduardo Mendoza (1986); Gaudí; a pintura modernista; os filmes de Bigas Luna, Ventura Pons e Joaquim Oristrell entre outros.
Ensaios:
BOU, Enric. 2012. Invention of Space. City, Travel and Literature. Madrid/ Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana / Vervuert [em particular os capítulos: 1. “Reading the City; 4. “’Decrèpita y Teatral’? On Literary explorations of Barcelona”; 7. Literary Construction: The Case of Eduardo Mendoza” ].
RICCI, Cristián H. 2009. El espacio urbano en la narrativa del Madrid de la Edad de Plata (1900-1938). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
SENNETT, Richard. 1996. Carne y piedra. El cuerpo y la ciudad en la civilización occidental. Madrid: Alianza [orig. 1994. Flesh and Stone: The Body And The City In Western Civilization, Norton.]

Teaching method

The seminars are theoretical/practical in nature, involving textual and visual interpretation proposed for each seminar session, prepared in advance. Focus will be placed on the interaction between the historical/artistic, geocultural and theoretical presentation of the subject, starting with key concepts, and the problematisation of the subjects of study by the Masters students, under the teacher’s supervision.

Evaluation method

Oral presentations in seminars of readings and the results of research in relation to the objectives of the seminar and its group discussion (40%); written submission and oral discussion of an individual final project, including bibliography (12 to 15 pages), with orientation by the teacher (60%).

Subject matter

CULTURE AND ARTS: AT THE CENTRE, THE CITY
Urban realities or symbolic experiences, objects of desire or melancholy, Cities play a fundamental role in artistic creation and the imagination of those who inhabit them and spend time in them.
Drawing, painting, writing, filming, making music from the city or in the city allows us to see, read and hear cultural diversity in its various representations and, at the same time, the identity constructs of which they form part.
We will develop this Seminar around two cities - Madrid and Barcelona - and around two lines of study:
1. The city as a subject of artistic representation; images of the city.
2. The city as space-time for producing artistic representations.
Our starting point will be a body of work which we will diversify according to the proposed lines of research. To begin with, we will concentrate on literature, cinema and painting, without precluding any other kind of artistic production, such as architecture, photography, music, theatre, comic. Therefore, this is the initial body of work:
MADRID: Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel La noche de los tiempos (2009); Antonio López’ s paintings and drawings; Pedro Almodóvar’ s films.
BARCELONA: Eduardo Mendoza’s novel La ciudad de los prodigios, de (1986); Gaudí, Modernist painting; Bigas Luna’s films.