Carlos Chocarro, profesor de Arquitectura, participa en un congreso internacional en París sobre el ‘Arte Total’
Carlos Chocarro, professor of Architecture, participates in an international congress in Paris on 'Total Art'.
Experts from the U.S., France and Spain participated.
Carlos Chocarro, professor at department of Theory and History of Architecture, participated in the international congress "Les apories de L'Art total. Artiste, société, temporalités", held in Paris.
The professor of the School of Architecture presented the discussion paper "L'Alhambra de Grenade, oeuvre d'art totale?" ("The Alhambra of Granada, total work of art?") together with Jorge Fernández-Santos, researcher of the University Jaume I of Castellón.
In addition to the two Spanish experts, specialists from Princeton, Columbia and New York Universities, Scripps College and Wesleyan College, USA, and Le Consortium, University of Paris 1, University of Lyon 2 and the National School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville, France, took part in the congress .
summary from discussion paper by professors Carlos Chocarro and Jorge Fernández-Santos
With architects F.Chueca and C.Miguel as the main initiators, the explicit denomination of the Alhambra as a 'total work of art' dates back to the Alhambra Manifesto (1953). This interpretation of the Arab monument, which combines organicism and abstraction in a context where 'the integration of the arts' became a priority, does not appear 'ex nihilo': it is part of a series of historicist readings that date back to the Enlightenment, and especially to José de Hermosilla's expedition to draw the 'Arab antiquities' of Cordoba and Granada (1766-1767).