{"product_id":"the-end-again-9780271071213","title":"The End Again","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vázquez’s location of Spanish visual cultures within this intricate interdisciplinary kaleidoscope of \u003ci\u003efin de siglo \u003c\/i\u003eartists, writers, criminologists, eugenicists, neurologists and scientists illuminates a national paranoia that festered in Spain from the ‘national disaster’—seemingly foretold by \u003ci\u003eThe Descent of Man—\u003c\/i\u003ethat signified for so many ‘the end’ of the Spanish race.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Fae Brauer \u003ci\u003eBurlington Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe End Again\u003c\/i\u003e 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!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—M. Elizabeth Boone,author of \u003ci\u003eVistas de \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEspa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eñ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860–1914\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eThe End Again\u003c\/i\u003e will be helpful for many of us teaching outside of Spain or the Spanish-speaking Americas.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Miriam Margarita Basilio \u003ci\u003eBulletin of Spanish Visual Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\tFragmentation: Fortuny’s Frame and the Melancholy of the New \t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\tSuture: Academies, Regionalism and Artistic Decline\t\t           \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\t Exhaustion: Degeneration in \u003ci\u003eFin de Siglo\u003c\/i\u003e Spanish Arts\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\tParody: Exhibitions Spaces and Modernism\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\tContainment: Reconquests, Colonialism and the Specter of Collapse\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 \t(Dis)Inheritance: Rachitic Bodies and Medical Discourses\t                     \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7\tDecay: Or, the Aristocracy’s Degeneration\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\tDisplacements: Regoyos, Verhaeren and \u003ci\u003eLa España Negra\u003c\/i\u003e\t\t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\tThe End Again\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400795332951,"sku":"9780271071213","price":80.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-again-9780271071213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}