The Surrealist Adventure in Spain
Title | The Surrealist Adventure in Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Brian Morris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 9780919473966 |
The Surrealist Adventure in Spain
Title | The Surrealist Adventure in Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Brian Morris |
Publisher | Dovehouse Editions Canada |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Companion to Spanish Surrealism
Title | Companion to Spanish Surrealism PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Havard |
Publisher | Tamesis Books |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Arts, Spanish |
ISBN | 9781855661042 |
A comprehensive introduction to Surrealism in Spain, with focus on poetry, art, drama and film.
The Spanish Avant-garde
Title | The Spanish Avant-garde PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Harris |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Arts, Modern |
ISBN | 9780719043420 |
This is the first book in English to examine the development of the avant-garde in Spain during the early twentieth century, across a wide range of cultural media.
The Rise of Surrealism
Title | The Rise of Surrealism PDF eBook |
Author | Willard Bohn |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 079148971X |
In The Rise of Surrealism, Willard Bohn examines the various literary and artistic developments that prepared the way for the international Surrealist movement—including Cubism, Metaphysical Art, and Dada—as well as the triumph of Surrealism itself. In an analysis that spans the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, Bohn surveys writers and artists from France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and the United States, examining both their aversion to mimesis and the solutions they devised to replace it. Much of the book is concerned with competing artistic models and with different strategies for creating avant-garde works, and focuses on such figures as Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Weber, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, J. V. Foix, and Joan Miró. The dynamics of the imagery that painters and poets chose to employ and the new roles this imagery assumed in their compositions are also discussed.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture PDF eBook |
Author | David T. Gies |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1999-02-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521574297 |
This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theatre and the essay. Spain's recent development is divided into three main phases: from 1868 to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War; the period of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and the post-Franco arrival of democracy. The concept of 'Spanish culture' is investigated, and there are studies of Spanish painting and sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading are provided, making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.
Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde
Title | Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde PDF eBook |
Author | Silvina Schammah Gesser |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1836240929 |
This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry, in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters "The Generation of '27", created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Silvina Schammah exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces of nationalistic ideologies on the other. Taking upon themselves roles to become the disseminators and populizers of radical positions and world-views first elaborated and conducted by the young urban intelligentsia, their proposed aim of incorporating diverse identities embedded in different cultural constructions and discourse was to have very real and tragic consequences as political and intellectual lines polarized in the years prior to the Spanish Civil War.