Lecture: Space to Maneuver? Abstract Art in Francoist Spain | Rober Lubar | 04.06.2023
Space to Maneuver? Abstract Art in Francoist Spain
Robert Lubar Messeri, Associate Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and The Joan Miró Curator, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
April 6, 2023
This lecture considers the growth of abstract art in Spain in the 1950s against the backdrop of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship. As Spain reentered the international community, it sought legitimacy through cultural promotion. Specifically, the regime fostered abstract painting and sculpture in Spain as an international phenomenon in line with advanced democracies, belying the widespread social repression that maintained state control. This begs broader questions: Were elements of visual and rhetorical resistance to the regime inscribed within the works of these artists, or did they willingly allow their work to be appropriated as cultural ambassadors for Spain? In what spaces could abstract artists maneuver a subtle critique of the regime, and what is the extent of their complicity? Outside Spain, what political valences did the reception of works by these artists have in response to the dictatorship? This talk considers the visual, critical, and rhetorical gambits through which abstract art in Spain was produced and received at home and abroad.
Видео Lecture: Space to Maneuver? Abstract Art in Francoist Spain | Rober Lubar | 04.06.2023 канала Meadows Museum Dallas
Robert Lubar Messeri, Associate Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and The Joan Miró Curator, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
April 6, 2023
This lecture considers the growth of abstract art in Spain in the 1950s against the backdrop of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship. As Spain reentered the international community, it sought legitimacy through cultural promotion. Specifically, the regime fostered abstract painting and sculpture in Spain as an international phenomenon in line with advanced democracies, belying the widespread social repression that maintained state control. This begs broader questions: Were elements of visual and rhetorical resistance to the regime inscribed within the works of these artists, or did they willingly allow their work to be appropriated as cultural ambassadors for Spain? In what spaces could abstract artists maneuver a subtle critique of the regime, and what is the extent of their complicity? Outside Spain, what political valences did the reception of works by these artists have in response to the dictatorship? This talk considers the visual, critical, and rhetorical gambits through which abstract art in Spain was produced and received at home and abroad.
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