Art and Gender in Contemporary Spain

Weekly schedule:
WEEK 1
Session 1: Introduction to the course. Public Art and Public Media, 1: Interventions of Contemporary Spanish Artists in the US. Daniel Canogar in New York, Jaume Plensa in Chicago. Self-guided field trip to 3 public artworks nearby UPF. Read: Check link on the “Self Guided Field Trip” file.
Session 2: Public Art and Public Media, 2: Debate on your field trip. Tessels and pixels: from mosaics to Googlegrams. The small picture and the big picture. Read: Josep Renau exhibit brochure.
WEEK 2
Session 1: Field Trip: El Born Centre Cultural. Read: Joan Fontcuberta, “A Decalogue For PostPhotographers”.
Session 2: Read: Public Art and Public Media 3: From analog photography to digital images. How we all became post-photographers. Carlos Marín, “A Byzantine Debate”.
WEEK 3
Session 1: In the edge, 1: Is it transgressive yet? The Spanish satirical tradition. The two types of satire and the goyesque. Read: Newspaper articles on the case of Francisco Franco’s public sculptures. Paper 1 Due.
Session 2: In the Edge, 2: Iconoclasia and iconodulia. Class debate on the case of Franco’sculptures. Read: Documentation on Keith Haring’s mural.
WEEK 4
Session 1: Field Trip: MACBA. Read: ‘The Fall and Rise of Lanzarote’. Spotify audition: El Guincho, Alegranza.
Session 2: Landscape Cultures, 1: The Canary Islands. Wind toys and Atlantic subjectivities. The reinvention of Lanzarote and Alegranza’s tropicalia. Ortega & Jiménez Blanco, “The Castillian Plateau and its National Symbolism”.
WEEK 5
Session 1: Landscape Cultures, 2: The Meseta myth, from the 98’Generation to cybercultures.
Session 2: MIDTERM EXAM. Read: Teresa Bastardes’ article on Museu del Disseny’s Dressing the Body.
WEEK 6
Session 1: Field Trip: Museu del Disseny (Museum of Design). Watch: John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Session 2: Imagine a body: Fighting gender wars… with style. New, empowering roles. Feminism meets the fashion industry. Read: Eloy Fernández Porta, “Reifictions: On Emotional Industries and Feminised Work.”
WEEK 7
Session 1: Imagine a body: Never Painted Home’s Angels. The politics of household and feminised work. Presentation Proposal due. Linda Nochlin. ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’
Session 2: Field Trip: CCCB. Watch: Kimmel, Boys Will be Boys: “Deconstructing Masculinites”.
WEEK 8
Session 1: The Making of Spanish Masculinities: Gendered Spaces and cognitive privileges. Becoming-man and alternative manhood. Reversible icons. Corporate masculinity. Read: ‘Almería and the Landscapes of Cinema’.
Session 2: The (Un)making of Spanish Masculinities. Session by invited artist Antoni Hervàs. Watch: Álex de la Iglesia, 800 Bullets.
WEEK 9
Session 1: Spanish Masculinities Reconsidered: Learning From Tabernas: paella western and the archaeologies of virility. Class debate on 800 Bullets.
Session 2: Group Presentations.
WEEK 10
Session 1: Group Presentations.
Session 2: Postcolonial perspectives in a globalized iconocracy. The Discourses of the Other.
WEEK 11
Session 1: Field Trip: La Virreina. Meeting with La Virreina’s director.
Session 2: FINAL EXAM.