Photographing Goya: The Disasters of War, Photojournalism, and Aesthetic Critique

This talk focuses on the critical and historical entanglement of Goya's Desastres de la Guerra with the photojournalism of war. It takes Goya as a point of departure in order to complicate accounts of the nineteenth-century "photographic revolution," and it reflects on the way Goya's images and the history of their reception might help to illuminate the concept of aesthetic critique.

Sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies and the Department of French & Italian