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Madrid's Forgotten Avante-Garde
Silvina Schammah Gesser
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Description for Madrid's Forgotten Avante-Garde
Hardcover. Explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarised Spanish society prior to the Civil War. This title exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Madrids Forgotten Avant-Garde 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 Madrids cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces ... Read more
Madrids Forgotten Avant-Garde 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 Madrids cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193843
SKU
V9781845193843
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About Silvina Schammah Gesser
Silvina Schammah Gesser specialises in the cultural and intellectual history of early twentieth-century Spain. Her more recent research has focused on the role of culture and the arts during Francoism and on issues of memory, representation, and museum practices in democratic Spain. Dr Schammah lectures at the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies and is a fellow researcher at ... Read more
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