Author: Cipriano de Rivas Cherif
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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"Paul Stewart's translation of Portrait of an Unknown Man, Cipriano de Rivas Cherif's biography of his brother-in-law and friend, introduces to English-speaking readers Manuel Azana, Spain's wartime president whom the Franco regime had treated as a nonperson." "Considered the symbol of the Second Republic in Spain, Azana was the subject of a flood of books and articles in 1990, the fiftieth anniversary of his death. The Spanish Ministry of Culture sponsored a major exhibition honoring Azana as author and statesman, while symposia dedicated to him were held in Barcelona and Montauban, France, where he died after finding uneasy refuge from Franco's armies and Hitler's Gestapo." "The biography also clarifies the complex politics of Spain in the twenties and thirties by focusing on this preeminent politician of that era, and it achieves depth in its portrait by painting the background of three generations of a bourgeois family caught up in dramatically changing times."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: Oscar E. Vázquez
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043951
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts&—paintings, furniture, even ladies' fans&—increased sharply in nineteenth-century Spain, and new institutions and practices for exhibiting as well as valorizing &"art&" were soon formed. Oscar V&ázquez maps this cultural landscape, tracing the connections between the growth of art markets and changing patterns of collecting. Unlike many earlier students of collecting, he focuses not upon questions of taste but rather upon the discursive and institutional frameworks that came to regulate art's economic and symbolic worth at all levels of Spanish society. Drawing upon sources that range from newspaper reviews to notarial documents, V&ázquez shows how collecting acquired the power to mediate debates over individual, regional, and national identity. His book also looks at the emergence of a new state apparatus for arts administration and situates these social and political changes in the broader European context. Inventing the Art Collection will be of interest to historians and sociologists of Spain and Europe, as well as art historians and cultural theorists.
Author: British Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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