Visualizing Spanish modernity
By: edited by Susan Larson and Eva Woods.
Contributors: Larson, Susan, 1968-; Woods, Eva.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Popular culture -- Spain -- History -- 19th century; Visual communication -- Spain -- History -- 19th century; Popular culture -- Spain -- History -- 20th century; Visual communication -- Spain -- History -- 20th century; Spain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Spain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Spain -- In art
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 1830-1939, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Susan Larson and Eva Woods; title: Visibly modern Madrid : Mesonero, visual culture, and the apparatus of urban reform / Rebecca Haidt; title: Foresight, blindness, or illusion? : women and citizenship in the second series of Galdòs's Episodios nacionales / David R. George, Jr; title: Horror, spectacle and nation-formation : historical painting in late-nineteenth-century Spain / Jo Labanyi; title: Isidora in the museum / Luis Fernández Cifuentes; title: Thresholds of visibility at the borders of Madrid : Benjamin, Gòmez de la Serna, Mesonero / Andrew Bush; title: Seeing the dead : manual and mechanical specters in modern Spain, 1893-1939 / Brad Epps; title: Santiago Rusiñol's Impresiones de arte in the age of tourism : seeing Andalusia after seeing Paris / Elena Cueto Asín; title: Landscape in the photography of Spain / Lee Fontanella; title: From engraving to photo : cross-cut technologies in the Spanish illustrated press / Lou Charnon-Deutsch; title: Spain's imaging and regional dress : from everyday object to museum piece and tourist attraction / Jesusa Vega; title: Observing the city, mediating the mountain : Mirador and the International Exposition of Barcelona / Robert A. Davidson; title: Joan Mirò, 1929 : high and low culture in Barcelona and Paris / Félix Fanås; title: Stages of modernity : the uneasy symbiosis of the género chico and early cinema in Madrid / Susan Larson; title: Visualizing the time-space of otherness : digression and distraction in Spanish silent film / Eva M. Woods; title: Modern anxiety and documentary cinema in Republican Spain / Eva M. Woods; title: The last look from the border / Joan Ramon Resina.