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Madrids Forgotten Avant-Garde: Between Essentialism & Modernity
Silvina Schammah Gesser
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
547g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197827
SKU
V9781845197827
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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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