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Patricia Mayayo
Patricia Mayayo Bost (born 1967) is a Spanish art historian, professor, and researcher. Her areas of research and study include the historiography of feminist and queer art, the history of women artists, and contemporary artistic practices. Biography Patricia Mayayo Bost was born in Madrid, 1967. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and an M.A. in Art History from Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, USA). Between 1998 and 2006, she was a professor of Art History at the European University of Madrid (UEM) and is currently a full professor at UAM. She was the coordinator of the University master's degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, which is taught at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS). She has been part of the research projects , and , financed by the Ministry of Education. She has directed courses on gender differences and their representation in art and cinema for different museums and contemp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocio De La Villa
Rocio de la Villa ( Madrid, 1959) is a Spanish university professor, art historian, curator, researcher and art critic. She has edited and collaborated in the edition of distinct catalogues and publications related with the art and the position of the woman in the artistic world. In 2014 she was rewarded with the Prize MAV in the modality of Criticism of art. She also goes by the names Rocio de la Villa Ardura and Rocio Villa-Ardura. Art historian De la Villa is Professor in the Autonomous University of Madrid of Aesthetics and Art Theory. She obtains the professorship of Aesthetics and Art Theory.in the same university. Besides she gives class in the Master of History of Contemporary Art and visual Culture that offers the Museo Reina Sofia. Also she gives classes in the Master of Studies Interdisciplinares of Gender at the Woman´s Studies Institute. President of the Spanish Society of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts as of 2013 and a co-founder of the Asociación de Muje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Art Historians
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People From Madrid
This article is a list of notable people from Madrid, the capital of Spain: Born in Architecture and urban planning * Teodoro Ardemans (1664–1726): Spanish architect * José Benito de Churriguera (1665–1725) and Churriguera family: Spanish Baroque architects and sculptors; the highly decorated Churrigueresque style of architectural construction is named after the family * Juan de Villanueva (1739–1811): Spanish architect of Neoclassicism * Arturo Soria (1844–1920): Spanish urban planner, well known for his concept of the linear city * Antonio González Echarte (1864–1943): Spanish civil engineer; one of the creators of the Madrid Metro * Carlos Mendoza y Sáez de Argandoña (1872–1950): Spanish civil engineer; one of the creators of the Madrid Metro * Eduardo Torroja (1899–1961): Spanish structural engineer and architect Army * Pedro de Heredia (1505 – c. 1554): Spanish conquistador and founder of Cartagena de Indias * Alonso de Contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps, USMC and Army of the Republic of Vietnam, ARVN troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Núñez
Marina Núñez (born 1966) is a Spanish artist, and a professor at the University of Vigo. Her work is included in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Artium Museum, Artium in Vitoria, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, MUSAC in Leon, Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, TEA in Tenerife, Fundación La Caixa, Fundación Botín, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina, Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, in Washington DC, Fonds régional d'art contemporain in Corsica, France. Education Núñez has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Salamanca, and a PhD in fine arts from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Career and work Her work was first exhibited in the early 1990s. Her depictions of ''madwomen''. and female ''monsters'' revealed an interest in gender discourses - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Calvo
María del Carmen Calvo Poyato (born 9 June 1957) is a Spanish politician and author who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of the Presidency from 2018 to 2021. Born and raised in Cabra, Spain, she attended the University of Seville and the University of Córdoba; she holds a doctorate in constitutional law from the latter institution. She was Regional Minister of Culture of Andalusia between 1996 and 2004. She also served between 2004 and 2007 as Minister of Culture in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Since June 2017, she has served as Secretary of Equality of the Socialist Party. She has published several books about feminism and gender equality. Early life and education Calvo's primary studies were carried out at a Catholic school and her high school studies at the Aguilar and Eslava High School in the province of Córdoba. She studied law at the University of Seville and got her doctorate in constitutional law in the University of Có ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Ferrer
Esther Ferrer (born 1937 in San Sebastián, Spain) is a Spanish performance artist. Ferrer received Spain's National Award for Plastic Arts (1999), the Marie-Claire Prize for Contemporary Art in France, and the Velázquez Plastic Arts Prize. History and career In 1966 she joined Walter Marchetti and Juan Hidalgo Codorniu in the Spanish performance art group Zaj, famous for its radical and conceptual performances, whose controversial "concerts" were presented in Spanish concert halls despite the censorship of Franco's regime. Zaj also performed in many other countries for 30 years, until 1996, when the group broke up after a retrospective in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. As a performer she has participated in festivals in Canada, Korea, the United States and Japan, and throughout Europe (France, Italy, Holland Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, England, the Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Slovakia, Germany and Hungary). Her production also includes objects, photos, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paloma Navares
Paloma Navares (born 1947) is an interdisciplinary Spanish artist who combines sculpture, photography, video and audio in her installations. Recurring themes in her work are the feminine condition, the historical representation of women through art, the critical analysis of the canon, madness, beauty and aging. Biography Navares was born in Burgos, Spain. She lives and works in Madrid and Alicante in Spain. In 1985-1986 she created ''Seravan; A Song for a Fallen Tree'' and ''Origin and Moonlit Nights'' which were mainly exhibited in art centers and museums in Europe. In 1997-98 she did the scenery design for ''The House of Forgetfulnes''s and ''Bodies of Shadow and Light'' with the company Lanonima Imperial. In 2004 she did a scenery design project for the opera ''Juana'' by Enric Palomar, first performed in 2005 at the Halle Opera House, Opera House in Halle (Saale), Halle. Since she began her art career in 1979 she has exhibited in more than one hundred venues around the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Gonzalez
Marisa González (born July 18, 1943) is a Spanish multimedia artist. She is considered a pioneer in Spain for the use of the new technologies in contemporary art. She works in distinct disciplines like photography, Installation art, installations, video-art or net-art. She has been Vice President of the association Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (Women in the Visual Arts) MAV, from 2010 until 2016. Biography Marisa González studied in her home town, Bilbao. In 1967 she moved to Madrid to study in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Meanwhile, while studying in 1970, she organized the First Permanent Exhibition in the School of Fine Arts of Madrid where she participated with students and recognized professional artists of that period. She finished her studies in 1971. That same year she moved to United States to study a Master's degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she specialized in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Lootz
Eva Lootz (born 1940, in Vienna) is an Austrian–Spanish artist and sculptor, best known for her sculptures and art work using plastics, and her plastic art public installations across Spain. She won the National Award for Plastic Arts in 1994, and her works are in the collections of the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, the Artium Museum, the Museo de Historia de Madrid, the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, and the Atlantic Center of Modern Art The Atlantic Center for Modern Art (Spanish:''Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM)'' ) is a contemporary art museum in the Canary Islands, Spain. It is in Vegueta in Las Palmas, the capital city of Gran Canaria. The building was designed .... References 1940 births Living people Spanish artists Austrian artists Spanish sculptors Austrian sculptors Spanish women sculptors Austrian wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
