The Department of History of Art of the University of Valencia, with the co-sponsorship of the Faculty of Geography and History, organizes this seminar as a complementary activity of our Degree and Postgraduate studies in Art History. It is mainly destined to the students of the subject of "Artistic Historiography" of third year of the Degree in History of Art, students of the last year of that degree, as well as of the Master in History of Art and Visual Culture and Doctorate in History of Art.
The seminar will be given by members of the research group Irudi (University of Buenos Aires, Universitat de Barcelona) and will address the study of the replicas that have been made throughout history for religious or playful purposes. It analyzes a particular sacred geography of the Holy Land and the body of Christ from the methodological perspective of the anthropology of the image and visual studies.
"In December 1999 the Holy Land theme park was inaugurated in Buenos Aires, a space in which the main landmarks of the city of Jerusalem are recreated with stone carton. It is understandable that the initial appraisal of this particular leisure center is hopelessly mediated by the kitsch exaltation: the holy places reproduced in polyurethane, the Creation explained in a spectacle of images, light, sound and laser beams, the Resurrection represented by a However, after this first impression, a more attentive and unprejudiced look allows us to find a series of analytical elements that problematize a flat and merely contemptuous reading, perceiving how, in reality, Earth Santa is an effective scenario for rethinking a multitude of issues related to the use of images, religious material culture or religion in the contemporary world."
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