Maruja Mallo and the Spanish avant-garde
By: Shirley Mangini
Contributors: Mallo, Maruja
Series: Ashgate studies in surrealism
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780754669326
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mallo's early years. Mallo's childhood; title: Spanish art in the early 20th century; title: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando; title: The Residencia de Estudiantes; title: Maruja Mallo and the "Residencia"; title: Mallo's rise to fame. The Verbenas and prints series; title: Mallo's debut at the Revista de Occidente offices; title: Surrealism in Madrid. The "generation of 27"; title: The complicated relationship between Mallo and Rafael Alberti; title: The "Vallecas School"; title: The impact of sewers and belfries in Madrid; title: The 1930s : from Surrealism to humanism. Mallo in Paris; title: Mallo's return to Madrid : the new humanism; title: Pablo Neruda and the "generation of 27"; title: Miguel Hernández; title: Mallo's final months in Spain; title: Mallo's exile in Argentina. The civil war years and the religion of work series; title: The 1940s : the new Mallo; title: The 1950s : Mallo's alienation in Buenos Aires; title: Mallo's return to Madrid. Madrid in the 1960s; title: The end of the Franco dictatorship and the recovery of the avant-garde; title: The 1980s : Mallo's descent into darkness; title: An appraisal of Mallo at the turn of the 21st century.