RENART GONZÁLEZ, DIEGO
Investigador postdoctoral @ Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Bio
Doctor en Historia del Arte por la Universidad del País Vasco, España, realizó su investigación sobre la juventud artística de Silvano Lora (1931-2003) hasta su primer exilio. Actualmente es investigador postdoctoral en la Facultad de Arte y Diseño de la Yildiz Technical University de Estambul, dentro del programa Türkiye Scholarships – Presidency of Turks Abroad and Related Communities, dedicándose a profundizar, además de en la historia del arte contemporáneo turco, en la resistencia intelectual antitrujillista y en las relaciones culturales entre la diáspora de artistas dominicanos y la vanguardia internacional. Recientemente ha recibido una ayuda como Research Fellow desde el Dominican Studies Institute de la City University of New York.
Geographical location : Istanbul
Research Area and Interest : Arte dominicano, emigración intelectual, relaciones culturales, exilios artísticos, etc.
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Presentation
Artistic Resilience in Ciudad Trujillo: Antitrujillism in the Dominican Arts in the Middle of the Past Century
I tackle in this presentation the response of the Dominican intellectual group and the exiled European people facing the state terror of the Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. It is expected with that to provide with a list of protagonists, reactions and strategies in order to understand the attitudes that defined what might call ‘the resilience in arts.’ Being informative with respect to the literary studies on this subject – much more advanced in novels– I will try to open, however, a line of comparative research in the Dominican plastic arts that interprets its symbolic aspect as a way of resistance from the sociology of art and semiotics.