La cultura visual del món casteller

Identificador:  TDX:2928

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2928

Autores:  Gené Rebull, Maria Luisa

Resumen:
The visual culture of the casteller world: art and human towers, focuses on an analysis of approach to the vision of the casteller. First from the look of a performative action, and then from the analysis of the human tower as a work of art. This separation is designed to understand, what are the human towers, beyond an action in popular culture and what impact they have had in the artistic world. This popular element was considered a tradition, concentrated in the Tarragona area. This regionalism and the folkloric component that is attributed to it has led to a low artistic production and a critical look at this sector. However, we have found works by artists as well as Picasso, Anglada- Camarassa, Arranz-Bravo, Antoni Llena, among others. The justification of the investigation is to make known, the interaction between the human tower world and the world of art. In order to start this thesis, we had to know and know the background that could exist, we only had two, Daniel Ventura, an article from 1981, and Antonio Salcedo of the year 2014. From here we started our research, the result of which is the thesis that we present. This doctoral thesis has been distributed in a total of five chapters, where we present a vision of a fact that is difficult to define, but that has created, at this time, a great expectation and liking. The first chapter is an interpretation and justification of the casteller in a performative vision, the second is the context of time and space where this action has been presented. A third chapter is to discover through the images the antecedents of the castles. A fourth chapter is the formal gaze of castles as a work of art. Finally, the fifth chapter is the collection of the plastic representations that we have found. And the questioning of the relationship between the world of art and the world of human towers.