{"product_id":"documenting-spain-artists-exhibition-culture-and-the-modern-nation-19291939-refiguring-modernism-9780271024745","title":"Documenting Spain Artists Exhibition Culture and the Modern Nation 19291939 Refiguring Modernism","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Lou Charnon-Deutsch,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Gypsy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jo Labanyi,University of Southampton \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—David T. Gies \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—David T. Giles \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDocumenting Spain\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Mauricio Tenorio \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tEl Poble Espanyol\/El Pueblo Español (1929)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tFrom Dalí’s “Documental-París—1929” to Buñuel’s \u003ci\u003eUntitled (Eating Sea Urchins)\u003c\/i\u003e (1930)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\t\u003ci\u003eLas Hurdes: Land Without Bread\u003c\/i\u003e (1933)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tThe Misiones Pedagógicas and Other Documentary Excursions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tJosep Renau and the 1937 Spanish Pavilion in Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\tSalvador Dalí’s \u003ci\u003eLe Mythe Tragique de l’Angélus de Millet\u003c\/i\u003e (1932–38\/1963)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733826789719,"sku":"9780271024745","price":65.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271024745.jpg?v=1782120076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/documenting-spain-artists-exhibition-culture-and-the-modern-nation-19291939-refiguring-modernism-9780271024745","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}