In 2001, following the award of the R&D project Image and Culture (GV-167-09), the APES. Imagen y Cultura, which was registered in the first register of research structures of the Universitat de València, directed by Dr. Rafael García Mahíques.
Since then, the team has led, within the Universitat de València, studies on image interpretation, taking iconology as a central methodology. Around this and other official research projects, the group has developed an extensive research activity with a high impact on the Spanish and international academic world, as well as a clear commitment to the training of new talents. From the beginning of its configuration, the APES group has had as one of its main recognitions the formative nature of its projects, the commitment to the internationalisation of its members, as well as the establishment of networks with other research groups, again both nationally and internationally. In terms of common products, the group's track record includes the organisation of several scientific meetings, the publication of collective works and the management of R&D projects.
Currently, the research group APES. Estudis de cultura visual is a consolidated team where the different members develop diverse lines of research whose wide range of topics have as their central axis the study and interpretation of the image, covering practically all fields of artistic visuality and under new methodological approaches such as the anthropology of the image. The hallmark of the APES group is the balance between the development of individual research and participation in a common disciplinary project that is manifested through the openness of the various lines of research, together with participation in joint projects, the creation of spaces for discussion and the desire for collaborative intellectual growth.
In this sense, the group shares, mainly, the participation in the project "Los tipos iconográficos", carried out under the auspices of various official R&D grants, as a long term project of inter-university scope whose main objective is to offer a treatise on iconographic types with the aim of becoming a reference work at national and international level (especially for the Hispanic and Latin American world). Likewise, the group is jointly committed to identifying new approaches and lines of research which, by introducing an innovative approach to the study of the image, will generate spaces for discussion that will activate the discipline of art history, enabling it to participate in the construction of cultural history as well as an authentic history of the image.
- To participate in the processes of change in the discipline of art history by placing visual culture studies at the centre.
- To promote the understanding of the artistic phenomenon within its historical context by means of iconology.
- To promote the discussion and use of new methodological approaches to the study of the image.
- Image, power and religion
Study of representations of power from ancient times to the contemporary world; the portrait; the image of the hero; the apologetic image; image and war conflict.
- Feast, ceremony and ritual
Study of representations of power from ancient times to the contemporary world; the portrait; the image of the hero; the apologetic image; image and war conflict.
- The iconographic types of the Christian tradition
Study of the formation, continuity and variation in a diachronic sense of iconographic types and their relationship with literary sources and cultural values.
- Visual culture and death
Study of images linked to death from ancient times to the contemporary world; image and relic; vanitas.
- Epistemological and methodological proposals for the study of images
Study and debate of epistemological and methodological approaches to the study of the image and visual culture; gender perspectives in the study of the image.
- Visual rhetoric in the Hispanic world
Study of emblematic and persuasive practices related to images from modern times to the contemporary world.
- Valencian heritage
The strategic role of tangible and intangible image studies oriented towards conservation and intervention in historical-artistic heritage; intangible cultural manifestations.
- Theory, use and function of the sacred image in the Hispanic sphere
Study of the discourse, theory, uses and functions of sacred and devotional images and their cultural implications in the religious, courtly and military spheres.
- GARCIA MAHIQUES, RAFAEL
- PDI-Emerit/a Universitat
- CHIVA BELTRAN, JUAN
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- Secretari/a de Departament
- DOMENECH GARCIA, SERGI
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Especialista Pau
- Director/a de Departament
- MARTI BONAFE, ANGELES
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- MOCHOLI MARTINEZ, M. ELVIRA
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Coordinador/a Curs
- MONZON PERTEJO, ELENA
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Especialista Pau
- VIVES-FERRANDIZ SANCHEZ, LUIS
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Coordinador/a de Mobilitat
- MONTESINOS CASTAÑEDA, MARIA
- PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
Partners
- Carla Aymes Fernández - Universitat de València.
- Leonardo Donet Donet - Universitat de València.
- ExpandirCHIVA BELTRAN, JUANPDI-Titular d'UniversitatSecretari/a de Departament
- ExpandirDOMENECH GARCIA, SERGIAlumn.-Servei de Formacio PermanentEspecialista PauDirector/a de Departament
- ExpandirMOCHOLI MARTINEZ, M. ELVIRAAlumn.-Servei de Formacio PermanentCoordinador/a Curs
- ExpandirVIVES-FERRANDIZ SANCHEZ, LUISAlumn.-Servei de Formacio PermanentCoordinador/a de Mobilitat
Blasco Ibáñez Campus
Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 28
46010 València (Valencia)
- GARCIA MAHIQUES, RAFAEL
- PDI-Emerit/a Universitat
