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Third lecture in the series Other Perspectives: Film, Writing and Photography in Twentieth-century Spanish Art, the third series organised in relation to the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Twentieth-Century Spanish Art: From Picasso to Barceló, led by the curator of the show, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco. 

In this talk, María de los Santos García Felguera, a senior lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University, will chart the careers of some of the leading female figures on Spain’s photography scene in the twentieth century.

All lectures take place at 7.15 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis. Tickets (one per person) can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. One third of the tickets will be available for booking through the website from 7 DAYS before the event. For any queries, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

María de los Santos García Felguera has a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has taught at that university and at the Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, in both cases introducing History of Photography subjects in the syllabus. She has explored the reception of art works, the critical fortune of artists and the relationships between photography and painting.

As an author, she has published individual books (Cabañas de cristal: galerías de retrato y estudios de fotografía en España, 2020; Viajeros, eruditos y artistas. Los europeos ante la pintura española del Siglo de Oro, Madrid, 1991); and collective volumes (Historia general de la fotografía, 2006, edited by por M-Loup Sougez; Fotógrafos en la Sevilla del siglo XIX, 1994; El Grafoscopio. Un siglo de miradas al Museo del Prado. 1819-1920, 2004). She has curated several exhibitions (Los Napoleón. Un estudio fotográfico, 2011; La imagen romántica de España, Madrid, 1981 and Barcelona, 1982) and coordinated others (Bromóleos, Fotografía pictorialista de Joaquim Pla Janini, 2022).

Part of her research centres on the women photographers who worked in Spain from the birth of the medium to the twentieth century, which has led to the documentation of a very considerable number of them.