Alfons PuigarnauUniversidad de Navarra | UNAV · ICS
Alfons Puigarnau
MD Art History UB, 1992, PhD Aesthetics UPF 1999
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Introduction
It is in 2022 I fulfilled 30 years of lecturing on Critical Thinking in art and architecture in Barcelona and 20 other cities in Europe, USA, Mexico and India.
I published 3 books and 30 articles in impact factor journals on the relationships between art and Neo-Platonism from Late-Antiquity to present. Also on iconography, urban culture and aesthetics.
I start now a 2 years new project on aesthetics and urban experience at the Institute for Culture and Society University of Navarre
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Additional affiliations
May 2022 - June 2022
Position
- Professor
Description
- Doctorate lectures on Art and Critical thinking
Publications
Publications (24)
Explanation of the affinity between Johan Huizinga and Aby Warburg in the way they both invoke the past through powerful images that offer the global vision of an entire epoch. In Huizinga the image of the decadence of the twentieth century is expressed through the notion of "autumn", the character of Philip the Good representing the need for one m...
This book explains, as a narrative biopsy, how Alfred Hitchcock's visual strategies anticipated postmodernism.
Hitchcock's cinema is useful for understanding the true nature of projected space.
The reader can review the space of film and architecture in the company of Hollywood stars and and prominent aesthetic writers of all times.
Hitchcock w...
The Barcelona Gothic Quarter was re-constructed in the twentieth century. Although theoretically historic monuments refer back to past epochs, in many cases they were produced recently. In Barcelona, medieval buildings were restored in a gothic style, while other historic buildings and facades were moved stone-by-stone into the area and ordinary re...
Ven le XV siècle, les commerçants furent réunis à Barcelone en tant que fort group social et èconomic. Nous analysons ic¡ une série de documents (principalment les testataments et les écrits matrirnoniaux) dans lesquels nous pouvons vérifier la présence de certains travaux d'art médiéval. Dans ces oeuvres nous trouvons une spéciale iconographie rel...
El 11 de enero de 1933, Walter Gropius escribe una carta a Josep Lluís Sert en la que manifiesta que Lucia Schultz, ex-esposa de László Moholy-Nagy, necesita salir de Alemania. Desde 1931, la ciudad de Barcelona y el GATCPAC viven momentos dulces con el gobierno de la segunda República española. El 30 de enero de 1933, Hitler es nombrado Canciller...
In this article the author deals with a cultural approach of some manuscripts and artistic images during the 12th century in Catalonia. Behind this pages there is an intention of not no approaching to the so called Historicism and to check to what extent it is possible to make a History of Medieval Catalan Culture from a more hermeneutic point of v...
Between the late-Antiquity period and the development of the Western Humanism in Europe the system of ideas called Neoplatonic Thought influences different interdisciplinary areas of knowledge. Philosophy, theology, art and literature register a particular development of the reference to the transition of visible into invisible in the aesthetic and...
Between the late-Antiquity period and the development of the Western Humanism in Europe the system of ideas called Neoplatonic Thought influences different interdisciplinary areas of knowledge. Philosophy, theology, art and literature register a particular development of the reference to the transition of visible into invisible in the aesthetic and...
In this article the authors analyse the letters crossed in 1933 between Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius and the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert (1902-1983), founder of the GATCPAC (Group of Catalan Architects and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture) and director of the Journal AC Documents d'Activitat Contemporània (Barcelona,...
En aquest article, el professor Alfons Puigarnau desenvolupa rigorosament una qüestió que està molt present en el seu pensament: el significat teologicofilosòfic de la llum, tema que ha desenvolupat exhaustivament en altres textos. En aquesta ocasió, ho fa a partir de Plotí, tot considerant la seva obra un antecedent intel·lectual de la teologia de...
Aquest article recull un text presentat a la Universitat de Leeds amb motiu d'un Congrés Internacional de Filosofia medieval. L'autor centra la seva anàlisi en la filosofia neoplatònica i tracta de veure les múltiples hermenèutiques d'aquest pensament en la Patrística i en el començament de l'Edat Mitjana.
Between the XIIIth and the XIV centuries, the so called Quatre grans croniques (Four Great Chronicles) are written in Mediaeval Catalonia. Three of the four authors of these documents show the historical facts as connected with and allowed by the Divine Providence. They develop a concept of History in which Space and time are categories necessarily...
Between the XIIIth and the XIV centuries, the so called Quatre grans croniques (Four Great Chronicles) are written in Mediaeval Catalonia. Three of the four authors of these documents show the historical facts as connected with and allowed by the Divine Providence. They develop a concept of History in which Space and time are categories necessarily...
It is necessary to consider medieval Western Neoplatonism as a current of thought inserted in a wide cultural atmosphere where liturgical, theological, aesthetic, and artistic patterns play an important role as elements of a common historical past. In this article the author argues to what extent Neoplatonic concepts (Epiphany, Negative Theology, T...
In this article the author deals with a cultural aproach of some manuscripts and artistic images during the 12th century in Catalonia. Behind this pages there is an intention of not no aproaching to the so called Historicism and to check to what extent it is possible to make a History of Medieval Catalan Culture from a more hermeneutic point of vie...
It is necessary to consider medieval Western Neoplatonism as a current of thought inserted in a wide cultural atmosphere where liturgical, theological, aesthetic, and artistic patterns play an important role as elements of a common historical past. In this article the author argues to what extent Neoplatonic concepts (Epiphany, Negative Theology, T...
Resumen:En el contexto del siglo XII europeo, se impone la iconografía del Cristo Luz aureolado por una almendra mística, sosteniendo un libro abierto con inscripciones alusivas a una teología de la luz.La proliferación de la iconografía de la Maiestas Domini se produce en el contexto histórico de la reforma litúrgica canóniga agustiniana, cuyo ori...
El professor Puigarnau, coneixedor dels implícits culturals de l'edat mitjana, investiga el concepte de temps apocalíptic segons l'home medieval. El temps apocalíptic és una forma religiosa de viure el temps com a contemplació del misteri sobrenatural, en espera que finalitzi allò terrenal.
L'autor d'aquest article tracta de reelaborar una imatge de la teologia del poder i de l'estètica medieval més enllà dels tòpics i estereotips que encara arrosseguen sobre aquesta etapa. Seguint les petjades i la historiografia de l'art medieval, l'autor elabora una hipòtesi molt plausible de l'estètica i la teologia del poder d'aquest ric període...
Projects
Projects (2)
With reference UB-AE-2022, this project is a research on playful artifacts in the art and design of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Catalonia. The results have to allow to develop innovative prototypes in the field of contemporary pedagogy.
Based at the Faculty of Beaux Arts in the University of Barcelona, we are a team of 19 members including personnel of the University of Fribourg and the Université Paris-XIII/Sorbonne-Cité
We want to study concepts and images about heaven during history and to relate them to mental, social and political formulations. With an interdisciplinar perspective -Theology, History and History of Art-.
