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The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain

English

By (author): Oscar E. Vázquez

As fin de siglo Spain struggled with perceived decadence and decline, the visual arts reflected the debate and influenced the outcome. This volume argues that the way artists understood and depicted the concepts of degeneration and regeneration is essential to understanding the broader societal conversation and is inseparable from definitions of Spanish modernism.

Oscar E. Vázquez examines how painting, sculpture, drawing, and popular illustrated materials approached endings and beginnings during the Bourbon monarchys restoration. Throughout this period, people inside and outside the art world came to associate degeneration with certain types of artistic productions, spaces, and human bodies, imbuing them with backwardness, violence, criminality, and disease. Pictorial representations contributed to this understanding that specific things, actions, attitudes, and ways of being were degenerative and backward or, alternatively, regenerative and modern. Vázquez explores the significance of these disparate perceptions and how their visual representations reflected Spanish national identity and modernism.

An in-depth study of the ideas of degeneration and regeneration in modernist Spain, The End Again is an insightful look at how art can affect the social and cultural debates at the heart of a nation.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1520g
  • Dimensions: 229 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Apr 2017
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780271071213

About Oscar E. Vázquez

Oscar E. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Inventing the Art Collection: Patrons Markets and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain also published by Penn State.

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