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Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War

Copyright Year 2013

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Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Ceremonious State of war is a history of art during wartime that analyzes images in various media that circulated widely and were encountered daily by Spaniards on city walls, in print, and in exhibitions. Tangible elements of the nation's past"monuments, cultural property, and fine art-historical icons"were displayed in temporary exhibitions and museums, too as reproduced on posters and in impress media, to rally the population, ascertain national identity, and reinvent afar and contempo history. Artists, political-political party propagandists, and government administrators believed that images on the street, in print, and in exhibitions would create a community of viewers, brought together during the staging of public exhibitions to understand their own roles as Spaniards. This volume draws on all-encompassing archival inquiry, brings to calorie-free unpublished documents, and examines visual propaganda, exhibitions, and texts unavailable in English. It engages with questions of national cocky-definition and historical memory at their intersections with the fine arts, visual culture, exhibition history, tourism, and propaganda during the Spanish Civil State of war and firsthand post-war period, every bit well equally contemporary responses to the contested legacy of the Spanish Civil War. It will be of interest to scholars in art history, visual and cultural history, history, and museum studies.

Tabular array of Contents

Contents: Introduction: creating, enacting, and recuperating historical memories; Figures of the Republic, the nation, and the Spanish art-historical tradition; The civilization of exhibitions: propaganda, painting, and cultural patrimony; Genealogies for a new Spain: nationalist territory, 1936-40; Staging national Spain: exhibitions and cultural patrimony 1936-40; Recuperating historical memory: gimmicky art and museums; Selected bibliography; Index.

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Biography

Miriam M. Basilio is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, New York University.

Reviews

'Miriam G. Basilio'due south research has the merit of analyzing Franco's policies which are little known when compared with the programmes promoted in the Republican period, and sheds light on certain topics of fence (including the oeuvre of Francisco de Goya, for case), effectually which the strategies of both parties converge with the aim of appropriating them for themselves.' Critique d'Art

'... Basilio is an interpreter of remarkable detail when it comes to the visual epitome. The force of this book is in its thoroughness and in Basilio's transmission of a visual historical record that has non as yet been widely bachelor.' Curator: The Museum Journal

'This volume volition exist useful for graduate students either in art history, history of the media, museum studies, war studies, or even for open-minded scholars in political science (particularly those with an involvement in the definitions/mutations of nation). Basilio clearly appears to be comfortable in all of these domains. Even for students unfamiliar with the rich history of Spain, this piece of work remains attainable and aptly contextualized.' Modernism/Modernity

'En resumidas cuentas, Visual Propaganda… constituye una obra imprescindible para comprender el uso, manipulación eastward interpretación de las imágenes y la propaganda durante la Guerra Ceremonious y el primer franquismo como elemento socializador y de adoctrinamiento a las órdenes de las élites intelectuales y políticas del país. Basilio, al igual que Christoph Kivelitz o los historiadores galos Dominique Rossignol y Denis Peschanski1, con sus libros sobre las exposiciones de propaganda en el Tercer Reich2 y la Francia de Vichy respectivamente, realiza una contribución enorme al conocimiento de las culturas de guerra en el siglo Xx.' Hispania Nova: Revista de Historia Contemporánea

'Basilio'due south belittling perspective is primarily fine art historical. She presents original and sophisticated arguments concerning the aesthetic and symbolic dimensions of visual propaganda, and her expositions of the political implications of curatorial strategies are lucid and impressive. The finish result is ... a fascinating report showing how art is a primal and contested ways by which nosotros formulate and communicate a sense of commonage identity and history.' The Journal of Modern History

'This thorough and thought-provoking book is an important contribution to the contend well-nigh visual representation and its efficacy in the context of war, not merely in Spain, but in Europe during the violent first one-half of the twentieth century.' Print Quarterly

'Miriam M. Basilio's fantabulous monograph provides an in-depth study of images that were in visual circulation both during and immediately after the disharmonize that tore Spain apart. ...This book is a success. Rigorously researched and argued, Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Ceremonious War deserves to be read past scholars beyond the board. It is accessible and lucid and will augment the knowledge of specialists and non-experts alike.' CAA Reviews

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