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Book SynopsisExplores how definitions of Spanish modernisms from 1874 to 1923 were dependent upon the concepts of degeneration and regeneration. Analyzes the relation between these concepts by examining representations of the body in specific spaces.
Trade Review“Vázquez’s location of Spanish visual cultures within this intricate interdisciplinary kaleidoscope of fin de siglo artists, writers, criminologists, eugenicists, neurologists and scientists illuminates a national paranoia that festered in Spain from the ‘national disaster’—seemingly foretold by The Descent of Man—that signified for so many ‘the end’ of the Spanish race.”
—Fae Brauer Burlington Magazine
“The End Again presents a rich body of new material on Spanish art and visual culture. By placing this work in conversation with the fields of medicine, psychiatry, anthropology, sociology, and criminology, Oscar Vázquez broadens our understanding of how the concept of degeneration functioned in Spain and, by extension, Europe more broadly at the turn of the twentieth century. I love this book!”
—M. Elizabeth Boone,author of Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914
“In addition to the book’s usefulness for scholars working in various disciplines, due to the lack of a textbook in English covering the history of Spanish art, The End Again will be helpful for many of us teaching outside of Spain or the Spanish-speaking Americas.”
—Miriam Margarita Basilio Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
Table of ContentsContents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Fragmentation: Fortuny’s Frame and the Melancholy of the New
Chapter 2 Suture: Academies, Regionalism and Artistic Decline
Chapter 3 Exhaustion: Degeneration in Fin de Siglo Spanish Arts
Chapter 4 Parody: Exhibitions Spaces and Modernism
Chapter 5 Containment: Reconquests, Colonialism and the Specter of Collapse
Chapter 6 (Dis)Inheritance: Rachitic Bodies and Medical Discourses
Chapter 7 Decay: Or, the Aristocracy’s Degeneration
Chapter 8 Displacements: Regoyos, Verhaeren and La España Negra
Epilogue The End Again
Notes
Bibliography
Index
