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Josep Renau and the Politics of Culture in Republican Spain, 19311939: Re-imagining the Nation (The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)
Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom
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Description for Josep Renau and the Politics of Culture in Republican Spain, 19311939: Re-imagining the Nation (The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, b/w & colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 261 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
At once pragmatic and utopian, the Spanish artist, critic and political activist Josep Renau engaged in multiple ways in the volatile cultural conflicts of interwar Europe, which converged on Spain in the Second Republics battle to modernise both politics and society (19311939). Renau used his idiosyncratic artwork and agit-prop, inspired by the Constructivists and the German avant-garde, to critique the timidity of the Republics first democratising reforms. To envision an alternative, he launched arts organisations and magazines whose goal was to begin the work of redefining Spanish national self-image through cultural innovation. The ideas Renau developed would soon come to ... Read more
At once pragmatic and utopian, the Spanish artist, critic and political activist Josep Renau engaged in multiple ways in the volatile cultural conflicts of interwar Europe, which converged on Spain in the Second Republics battle to modernise both politics and society (19311939). Renau used his idiosyncratic artwork and agit-prop, inspired by the Constructivists and the German avant-garde, to critique the timidity of the Republics first democratising reforms. To envision an alternative, he launched arts organisations and magazines whose goal was to begin the work of redefining Spanish national self-image through cultural innovation. The ideas Renau developed would soon come to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198077
SKU
V9781845198077
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About Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom
Carl-Henrik Bjerstroem is a historian specialising in the cultural history of modern Spain, particularly the Second Republic of 19311939. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, LSE, as well as a visiting tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London. Other research interests include the social history of interwar Europe, modernism, and ... Read more
Reviews for Josep Renau and the Politics of Culture in Republican Spain, 19311939: Re-imagining the Nation (The Canada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain)
Overall, the monograph provides an excellent insight into some of the main culturaldebates within the Spanish left during the Second Republic, such as the revolutionarypotential and limitations of art, the power of visual art to reach a large-scale audience, therole of local traditions and cultural heritage, the relation between high and popular art, andthe dialogue between Spanish cultural and aesthetic ... Read more