Virtual Talk | Avant-garde, Militant Criticism, & the Franco Regime | Paula Barreiro López | 5.02.23

Further Afield provides a broad social, political, economic, and historical context for works of art at the museum. This spring Further Afield focuses on art, culture, and life in Francoist Spain (1939–75). These 45-minute talks take place exclusively online.

Avant-garde, Militant Criticism, and the Franco Regime: A Battle for the Meaning of Modern Art
Paula Barreiro López, Professor of Contemporary Art History, Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès
May 2 | 12:00 pm Central Time

In 1962 Antonio Giménez Pericás, a Valencian art critic deeply involved with the avant-garde movements in Francoist Spain, was arrested for political activism. During his military trial he defended the political meaning of art, considering politics as consubstantial with artistic processes. Such a point of view was in opposition to the officially endorsed understanding of art. Nevertheless, Pericás was expressing not only his own beliefs and those of the clandestine Communist Party (to which he belonged) but also those of a great many artists, critics, and intellectuals. This lecture analyzes the creation and development of this specific understanding of the arts, highlighting the inevitable processes of negotiation that it entailed among art critics, artists, and cultural agents during the late Francoist period (1959–75).

Видео Virtual Talk | Avant-garde, Militant Criticism, & the Franco Regime | Paula Barreiro López | 5.02.23 канала Meadows Museum Dallas