Related Art and Tourism Imaginaries IV

This lecture leads into an annual series which explores the relationship between tourism imaginaries and the visual arts from the 1960s onwards. Once a year, an innovative case study will be presented which reflects on how mass tourism, as an industry of experience, has been linked to the search for experience characterising art since 1960.

This activity constitutes the second edition of the annual series Art and Tourism Imaginaries, which explores the relationship between tourism imaginaries and visual arts in Spain from the 1960s onwards.

This lecture series, the third instalment organised by the interuniversity group TURICOM — which is part of the project Paradoxical Modernity: Artistic and Tourist Experience in Developmentalist Spain (1959–1975), PGC2018-093422-B-I00 (MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE) — endeavours to examine the relationship between tourist imaginaries and the visual arts from the 1960s onwards. . More specifically, this new edition centres on the concept of ruin as a centre of attraction for cultural habits and practices inside the sphere of tourism.