Cuadernos de la Cátedra Miguel de Unamuno

Aesthetics and Theory of Arts by Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel Ángel Rivero Gómez — 2024-10-03

This work focuses on the aesthetics of Miguel de Unamuno based on three fundamental keys: his notion of «style», which he addresses both in terms of plastic and literary creation; his «aesthetics of expression», strongly linked to Benedetto Croce and from which Unamuno’s own work unfolds; and his conception of «beauty» from its relationship with the idea of «eternity», understanding the aesthetic experience before beauty as «eternization of momentaneity». From there, what we could call Unamuno’s tragic aesthetics takes shape, closely linked to two central aspects of his philosophy: the problem of personality and the desire for immortality. Throughout the work, his philosophical reflections on these three aesthetic categories are articulated with his notes and impressions on Spanish art, from the Baroque to the art of the early 20th century.

Dave Meder, Jazz and his Hommage to Unamuno

Rafael Chabrán — 2024-10-03

This essay deals with the recent work of the American jazz pianist Dave Meder’s Unamuno songs and stories and it connections to the work and thought of the Spanish thinker, poet and novelist Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). We contextualize Meder’s work within Unamuno’s ideas about music, as well as the Basque’s musician friends.

Miguel de Unamuno and his sculptures in the Basque Country

María Jesús Cava Mesa — 2024-10-03

This article is about the sculptures erected to exalt the figure of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo in the Basque Country.

Unamuno’s contacts with pictorical art. The restoration of his two paintings of “Basque Scenes”.

Natalia Rivas San Román — 2024-10-03

This article intend to delve into the artistic career of the generation of 98’s writer, don Miguel de Unamuno, based on two of his works painted in his youth as an apprentice in Antonio de Lecuona’s studio: Escenas vascas. This study is carried out based on the restoration of the works exhibited at the Unamuno’s House Museum in Salamanca in the months of June and July 2022 by Alejandra del Barrio Luna. In addition, his drawing activity throughout his life and his conception of modern art are analyzed. Furthermore we will observe his relations with other artists of the Basque scene of the moment and his socio-cultural and historical-artistic context.

Metaphors of the eternal. Unamuno: portraits and the relationship with the artists of his time

Marta García Gasco — 2024-10-03

This study reviews the task of locating and identifying the different existing portraits of Miguel de Unamuno, focusing exclusively on those made during the literary man’s life by the different artists of his generation.

The depth of Velázquez and the transcendent humanism of Unamuno: triggers in the Yasumasa painting

Clara Colinas Marcos — 2024-10-03

The article explains the keys to Toshima Yasumasa’s artistic work, which revolves around two principal detonators: the deph of spanish painter, Diego de Velázquez, and the transcendent humanism of the intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno. In them he found the meaning of eternity, his vocation for art and was able to forge, during his long stay en Spain, the connection established between his art and Velazquez’s painting, also between his works and Unamuno’s views, invaded by the ladscape and the existencial. Yasumasa’s painting includes the same realities treated by Unamuno: the symbolism and historical wake of cities, attachment to the land, ties of people, love of nature, religious sentiment and the search for the profound and sacred. Constants which will gradually be remembered in these pages.

Unamuno and the Zamorano painter Gallego Marquina

Antonio Pedrero — 2024-10-03

Iconography (and its glasses) of Miguel de Unamuno

Alejandra del Barrio Luna — 2024-10-03

Abel Sánchez: a theatrical adaptation

Robin Lefere — 2024-10-03