Universitat de València professor, Enrique Herreras, has received the VII International Artez Blai Award of Research of Performing Arts with his work “Notas y contranotas para una estética teatral (Aportaciones de la escena al pensamiento contemporáneo)”, meaning “Notes and footnotes for a theatrical aesthetic (Contributions from the scene to the contemporary thinking)”.
The winning work values the scenic arts as bearers of a rich material for the aesthetic speculation, and it suggests that reflecting upon the aesthetic globe of theatre helps perceive dilemmas better and unresolved issues by the scene.
From this perspective, the book starts with a speech about dramatic arts which is inseparable from the theories about arts in general, but also the objective is to find particularities of the scene as for, obviously, its expressive possibilities are different to the other arts.
Enrique Herreras Maldonado is an Ethics and Political Philosophy professor at Universitat de València, and Aesthetics professor at School of Dramatic Arts in Valencia. He writes opinion columns and he is also a critic of the performing arts at different means of communication (Levante EMV, Cartelera Turia, etc.). He has also collaborated in specialized publications as Ade-Teatro, Primer Acto or Ubu Scènes d’Europe. He has been a dramatic and documental research consultant at the Documentation Centre of Theatres of the Generalitat, coordinator of the “Diálogos de Danza” periodical publication (Choreographic Centre of Theatre of the Generalitat Valenciana) and director of Teatre VLC periodical publication.
He has published, among others, “La tragedia griega y los mitos democráticos” (Biblioteca Nueva, 2011); “Abrir en oscuro: una historia gráfica del teatro valenciano” (Documentation Centre of Theatres of the Generalitat Valenciana, 2011); “Los diez mandamientos de la ley de Els Joglars” (Algar, 2005); José Monleón “Un viaje (real) por el imaginario” (Generalitat Valenciana, 2002) and “!Una lectura naturalista del teatro del absurdo” (Universitat de València, 1996). Likewise, he has published different collective books as an editor and multiple articles in periodical publications of physics environment, both in the field of the aesthetics as in the field of Political Philosiphy.
Last update: 26 de february de 2015 07:00.
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