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Barcelona and Madrid
Social Networks of the Avant-Garde
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2012
Summary
For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep rivalry. Throughout history, they have competed in practically every aspect of social life, sport, politics, and culture. While competition between cities is commonplace in many nations around the world, in the case of Barcelona and Madrid it has been, on occasion, excessively antagonistic. Over time they have each tried to demonstrate that one was more modern than the other, or more avant-garde, or richer, or more athletic, and so on. Fortunately, the Spain of today is a democracy and every nation and region of the State has the liberty to act. As such, the rivalry between these two capitals has become productive not only for the cities themselves, but also for Spain as a whole. One hundred years ago, at the onset of the Historical Avant-Garde in Spain, the connections between Barcelona and Madrid consisted of a complicated web of politics, friendships, publications, and inter-art collaborations. Over the last century, the antagonistic relationship between these two cultural capitals has been dismissed as simply a fact of life and thereby scholars, for the most part, have focused only on Barcelona or Madrid when addressing this cultural moment. By delving deep into the myriad of cultural and political complexities that surround these two cities from the onset of Futurism (1909) to the arrival of Surrealism in Spain (1929), a complex social and cultural network is revealed. Networking between artists, poets, journalists and thinkers connected avant-garde Barcelona and Madrid, thereby creating synergy for this artistic and literary movement. In a hybrid, transdisciplarian, translingual and historical approach using a wide range of visual and textual artifacts, the complexity of interactions described here opens our imagination to new ways of thinking about culture.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-424-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-425-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
258
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Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chronology: Barcelona and Madrid, 1900–1939 No access
Introduction No access
Ch01. Introduction to the Avant-Garde No access Pages 1 - 16
Ch02. The Avant-Garde as Network No access Pages 17 - 56
Ch03. The Crisis of Modernity No access Pages 57 - 78
Ch04. One Hundred Little Magazines No access Pages 79 - 112
Ch05. The Art of Seeing: To See and Be Seen in Spain’s Avant-Garde Art Scene No access Pages 113 - 154
Ch06. The Quixotic Quest of Ernesto Giménez Caballero No access Pages 155 - 192
Conclusion No access Pages 193 - 194
Appendix A. The Iberians No access Pages 195 - 198
Appendix B. Modern Catalan Art Show No access Pages 199 - 200
Appendix C. Catalan Book Fair No access Pages 201 - 204
Appendix D. Spanish School in Paris No access Pages 205 - 206
Appendix E. Works Displayed at the Exposició de modernisme pictoric catala No access Pages 207 - 208
Appendix F. National and Foreign Modern Art No access Pages 209 - 210
Appendix G. Catalan Contributors No access Pages 211 - 212
Appendix H. Catalan Presence in La Gaceta Literaria No access Pages 213 - 224
Appendix I. Periodicals Consulted No access Pages 225 - 228
