Author: Publisher: Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Conquest of History
Author: Christopher Schmidt-NowaraPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
As Spain rebuilt its colonial regime in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish American revolutions, it turned to history to justify continued dominance. The metropolitan vision of history, however, always met with opposition in the colonies.The Conquest of History examines how historians, officials, and civic groups in Spain and its colonies forged national histories out of the ruins and relics of the imperial past. By exploring controversies over the veracity of the Black Legend, the location of Christopher Columbus's mortal remains, and the survival of indigenous cultures, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara's richly documented study shows how history became implicated in the struggles over empire. It also considers how these approaches to the past, whether intended to defend or to criticize colonial rule, called into being new postcolonial histories of empire and of nations.
Crescent Remembered
Author: Patricia HertelPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782842357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building with its varied concepts and constructs of national identities. Politicians, historians and intellectuals debated vigorously the question how the Muslim past could be reconciled with the idea of the Catholic nation. The Crescent Remembered investigates the processes of exclusion and integration of the Islamic past within the national narratives. It analyses discourses of historiography, Arabic studies, mythology, popular culture and colonial policies towards Muslim populations from the 19th century to the dictatorships of Franco and Salazar in the 20th century. In particular, it explores why, despite apparent historical similarities, in Spain and Portugal entirely different strategies and discourses concerning the Islamic past emerged. In the process, it seeks to shed light on the role of the Iberian Peninsula as a crucial European historical "contact zone" with Islam.
Inventing the Art Collection
Author: Oscar E. VázquezPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043951
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
Visualizing Spanish Modernity
Author: Susan LarsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000324036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
While the simultaneously creative and destructive forces of modernity in Western Europe have been well studied, the case of Spain has often been overlooked. Visualizing Spanish Modernity concentrates on the time period 1868-1939, which marks not only the beginning of the formation of a modern economy and the consolidation of the liberal state, but also the growth of urban centers and spaces made possible by electricity, transportation, mass production and the emergence of an entertainment industry. The authors examine how mass print culture, early cinema, popular drama, photography, fashion, painting, museums and urban planning played a role in the way that Spanish society saw itself and was in turn seen by the rest of the world. Assessing how new cultural forms were instrumental in shaping Spaniards into citizens of the modern world, the authors consider such subjects as the spectacle of the body, notions of race and gender, the changing meanings of time, space and motion, the relationship between technology and everyday life and popular culture.
The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts
Author: Rosario Rovira GuardiolaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474298605
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting, witness and protagonist of mythical adventures, of encounters with the Other, of battles and the rise and fall of cultures and empires, of the destinies of humans. Braudel's appeal for a long durée history of the Mediterranean challenged traditional views that often present it as a sea fragmented and divided through periods. This volume proposes a journey into the bright and dark sides of the ancient Mediterranean through the kaleidoscopic gaze of artists who from the Renaissance to the 21st century have been inspired by its myths and history. The view of those who imagined and recreated the past of the sea has largely contributed to the shaping of modern cultures which are inexorably rooted and embedded in Mediterranean traditions. The contributions look at modern visual reinterpretations of ancient myths, fiction and history and pay particular attention to the theme of sea travel and travellers, which since Homer's Odyssey has become the epitome of the discovery of new worlds, of cultural exchanges and a metaphor of personal developments and metamorphoses.
The Nineteenth Century in the Prado
Author: Museo del PradoPublisher: T.F. Editores, S.L.C.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This is effectively a historical journey through the works of the great 19th century Spanish masters from Goya through to Sorolla.
Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century
Author: Frick Art Reference LibraryPublisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN: 9780816106561
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A bibliographical dictionary which constitutes details of the Spanish school, covering artists born in Spain as well as those who worked chiefly in Spain. Approximately 1600 years of Spanish art are documented with consideration paid to each artist's birth and death dates, medium and bibliographical references. The three-volume work lists about 10,000 painters, sculptors, draftsmen, printmakers, architects and applied artists. Some entries also include explanatory, interpretive or clarifying notes.
Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: General bibliography and indexes
Author: Frick Art Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
