Research Catalog

Title

Avant-garde art and criticism in Francoist Spain / Paula Barreiro López.

Author

Barreiro López, Paula

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

viii, 352 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This groundbreaking book surveys the shifts in the aesthetic discourse and artistic practises that decisively influenced the shaping of the avant-garde during Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975). On the basis of extensive, so far unpublished, archival material, it discusses the intellectual and cultural field as an important battlefield for fighting the regime from within. The study opens with a comprehensive historical overview on the cultural world from the end of the Spanish Civil War throughout Francoism and reveals for the first time the broader intellectual and cultural context of vanguard art considering the special relations and negotiation processes between artist, critics and institutions during a major gap in the historiography of post-war Spanish culture: the late Franco dictatorship (1959-1975). It then analyses in depth the important role that a group of art critics played as theoreticians and peers in key artistic movements from the 1950s onwards. Using their extensive international networks in the midst of the Cold War period, they decisively influenced the aesthetic and cultural debates of their time and very concretely helped shaping a completely new discourse for the avant-garde in Spain. This book discusses the creation of this new discourse that linked culture and ethics/politics and analyses its impact on the intellectual and artistic landscape (visual, print and exhibition culture) during the last decades of Franco's regime.

Series Statement

Value: Art: Politics ; 12

Uniform Title

Value, art, politics 12.

Subject

• Avant Garde Musikgruppe
• 1900-1999
• Art > Spain > History > 20th century
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Spain > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Modernism(s) -- avant-garde(s). Spain: an integrated case? -- Methods, structure and sequence -- 1. From Guernica to the international alliances: culture, art and society -- Cultural battle lines of the Civil War -- 'Bread' of the victors: art and culture under autarky -- 'We welcome you, Americans, with joy!': international and domestic cultural policies in the early 1950s -- 2. 'Spain is different': art, culture and propaganda in the era of the consumer society -- Language of technocracy -- Equivocal fruits of apertura -- Dissent in the twilight of Francoism -- 3. Critics and networks: assuming militant criticism -- Critical networks -- Militant criticism 'all' Argan' -- Militant critics in Spain -- 4. 'Marxization' of art criticism: information, ideology and anti-Francoism -- Marx through 'the backroom' -- 'Widening the cracks': Nulla aesthetica sine ethica -- Militant criticism at the service of anti-Francoism -- Mediations: militant critics providing 'information' and 'ideology' -- 5. Adoption(s), adaptations(s) and artistic praxis -- Sociological turn(s) of the militant critics -- 'Solutions of transformation': militant critics and avant-garde artists in collaboration -- Nature of the avant-garde: a conflicting issue -- Epilogue -- Artistic avant-garde and social reality: a battle for the meaning of modern art.

ISBN

• 9781781383223
• 1781383227

OCLC

• 952183131
• SCSB-10428286

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library