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Trade Review“Instead of isolating artists such as Buñuel and Dalí from the political contexts in which they produced their work, Mendelson studies the role these and other artists played in negotiating Spanish modernity and in conventional thinking about family and nation, rural and urban Spain, Republican and Fascist ideology.”
—Lou Charnon-Deutsch,author of The Spanish Gypsy
“This is a major study that I would expect to become a classic. The Spanish documentary practices chosen for analysis are all related to exhibition culture in some way but also to ethnographic studies in Spain at the time, which in turn provide crucial information about attitudes toward Spain’s relation to modernity and its ‘usable past.’”
—Jo Labanyi,University of Southampton
“Mendelson’s well-documented study sees this cultural phenomenon . . . as a recognition of the country’s modernity, or what modernity might have looked like in the Spain of the 1930s. . . . Smart, original, and well written, this book gives us a fresh view of artistic (documentary) activity during one of Spain’s most intense and troubled times.”
—David T. Gies Virginia Quarterly Review
“Smart, original, and well written, this book gives us a fresh view of artistic (documentary) activity during one of Spain’s most intense and troubled times.”
—David T. Giles Virginia Quarterly Review
“Documenting Spain is an admirable book, enhanced by the gorgeous presentation afforded by its publisher. Mendelson proves that daring cultural analysis can, in fact, coexist with rich empirical research.”
—Mauricio Tenorio Journal of Modern History
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. El Poble Espanyol/El Pueblo Español (1929)
2 From Dalí’s “Documental-París—1929” to Buñuel’s Untitled (Eating Sea Urchins) (1930)
3. Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread (1933)
4. The Misiones Pedagógicas and Other Documentary Excursions
5. Josep Renau and the 1937 Spanish Pavilion in Paris
6. Salvador Dalí’s Le Mythe Tragique de l’Angélus de Millet (1932–38/1963)
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
