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José Díaz Cuyás

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(Valencia, 1962) Profesor de Estética y Teoría del Arte en la Universidad de La Laguna. Desde los años ochenta viene impartiendo conferencias y publicando artículos en revistas especializadas. Entre sus textos recientes destaca «Contra la Historia y el Arte en general: la tarea crítica de Ángel González y Juan José Lahuerta», Desacuerdos 08. Ha sido director de Acto Ediciones y de ACTO: revista de pensamiento artístico contemporáneo, que dedicó números monográficos a Duchamp, al suelo, la risa y los fantasmas. En la actualidad es coordinador del grupo de investigación TURICOM, Turismo, Cuerpo y Muerte en la cultura del ocio.

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Concreta 10, Art and tourism, José Díaz Cuyás

Concreta 10 (Autumn 2017) prompts a reflection around the relationship between art and tourism in late modernity: a period when gradual museumization and touristification of the world were part of the same process. Once the artwork is no longer an object of contemplation but an experience, the hierarchical order between authentic/inauthentic experiences falls apart. To address this and other questions, the issue counts with the collaboration of José Díaz Cuyás, Eugenia Afinoguénova, Mariano de Santa Ana, Gilberto González, Dean MacCannell, James Meyer, Lena Peñate y Juan José Valencia, Richard Hamilton, Kelly Yeaton, Vicente Benet, Roberto Gil Hernández, Beatriz Herráez and George Maciunas.
05/11/2017

About the Destruction of Art: Dario Gamboni in conversation with José Díaz Cuyás

José Díaz Cuyas has a conversation with Dario Gamboni about the notion of vandalism as a political weapon within the contemporary art, but also about iconoclasm towards images nowadays, which are marked by mass media technology making the representation of violence and its impacts its leit motive. José Diaz Cuyás: You’re one of the first art historians to take an interest in vandalism. As early as 1983 you dedicated a monograph to a paradigmatic case, which had happened three years beforehand, (...)
01/06/2015