La imagen de la ruina en el arte español contemporáneo

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ABSTRACT: This work studies how current Spanish art deals with architectural ruin. The Ruin is a classic theme within the history of art and the present PhD thesis is based on its actuality in Spanish art. Considering the different axes of reflection that artistic practice establishes around the architectural ruin, a tripartite structure has been adopted: ruins of the war, industrial ruins and everyday life ruins. This one is a term coined by the thesis itself. To study the meanings and translations of each way of thinking the Ruin, each part revises three significant artistic projects. The first part deals with the work of Spanish art with the ruins of the Civil War, studying the testimonial work of the artists, their position and their commitment to Human Rights. The second part discovers the industrial ruins in Spanish art as repositories of romantic values given to the landscape and nostalgia for places, showing them as an identity part of the Spanish people. The part of the everyday ruin agglutinates the work of artists with the ruins that populate the habitat of people in cities and towns. The ruins have been inserted in the daily life of the Spaniards in a surprising way in the last decades and it is something to which the artists have reflected. In short, the doctoral thesis emphasizes and translates ideas of art about the everyday nature of ruin, its relation with human rights and its condition of aesthetic bastion of a critical nostalgia. PALABRAS CLAVE: ruina, arte contemporáneo español; ruinas bélicas; memoria colectiva; ruina cotidiana; urbex; cultura de la nostalgia; cultura visual; historia del arte. KEY WORDS: ruin; Spanish contemporary art; war ruins; collective memory; everyday ruins; urbex; culture of nostalgia; industrial ruins; visual culture; art history.