2014 Museo del Prado Seminars

After the positive result obtained by the first Museo del Prado Seminar, headed this year by Félix de Azúa, the Museum announces two new seminars to be also directed by the prestigious philosopher and Aesthetics professor Félix de Azúa. 2014 Museo del Prado Seminars are going to be carried out from January to April, titled: 1^st. The thinking eye (1750-1850) and 2^nd. Construction and representation of the New World (1850-1940).

The seminars, which complement each other, include eleven sessions given by Félix de Azúa and a group of prestigious specialists, such as Francisco Calvo Serraller, José Luis Díez and Jon Juaristi, among others, who will be sharing their theoretical, technical and methodological knowledge to offer a comprehensive and articulated approach to those matters. Both seminars are going to be held at the Studies Center of Museo del Prado (Casón del Buen Retiro) between January and April 2014.

Created in 2013, Museo del Prado Seminars represent a new academic initiative promoted by the museum, within the framework of the Studies Center’s pedagogic aspiration, aimed at defining a model of dynamic training between the director and a small group of students in order to go into a subject matter during a prolonged period of time, just like seminars that take place in American and European universities.

The first seminar, The thinking eye (1750-1850), is scheduled on Wednesdays January 22 – April 9, 2014, and it will be taking an analytical tour around the transformations that have taken place in visual arts after the French Revolution, from the setting-up of the Academies, the first step toward the intellectualization of arts, to purely theoretical arts of the 20^th century; and it will be tackling such topics as The mental scenery, The representation of history or The invention of the Other.

Construction and representation of the New World (1850-1920), the second seminar to be developed on Thursdays February 6 – April 24, 2014, will be dealing with the process of the platonic tekné in their faces, the technique and artistic, during the creation process of a new world after the revolution of 1848 and until the end of the century, with such topics as The artist as an intellectual, Female artists in the late 19^th century or The engineer, interpreter and constructor of a new world.

The deadline to join any of the seminars is December 20. Registrations can be processed through www.museodelprado.es