Desde el yacimiento. Discurso arqueológico y arte contemporáneo

Abstract

Twentieth century art, with its natural affinity to archaeology, has been fascinated not only by the beautiful works extracted at the sites, but also by the sites themselves and by their fragmented reality. The space-matter-time aspect of expanded sculpture of this period utilizes and shares the same devices and imaginaries as archaeology. In addition, the intense theoretical activity generated by archaeology and art respectively, progressively converges until encountering some surprising discursive coincidences that will be highlighted in this text. After explaining some of the central theories in the development of modern archaeological science, these will be placed in relation to their contemporary counterparts with regard to art theory's concerns up until post-modernism.