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Contemporary Art History

Research in Contemporary Art History in Spain: Image, Memory and Modernity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Valencian heritage

The strategic role of tangible and intangible image studies oriented towards conservation and intervention in historical-artistic heritage; intangible cultural manifestations.

Visual culture and death

Study of images linked to death from ancient times to the contemporary world; image and relic; vanitas.

Visual rhetoric in the Hispanic world

Study of emblematic and persuasive practices related to images from modern times to the contemporary world.