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Book SynopsisThe Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on Spatiality, Palomares-Salas convincingly argues that an unsolvable tension between place and space is at the core of the Hispanic avant-garde cultural production. A refreshing, transatlantic perspective on Ultraism and Stridentism, the book moves the Hispanic vanguards forward into broader, international discussions on space and modernism, and offers innovative readings of well-known, as well as rarely studied works.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Spatiality and the Hispanic Avant-Garde 1 Space, Place, and the Avant-Garde 2 The Perspective of Experience 3 Representing Space 4 The Hispanic Transatlantic Avant-Garde 5 Transatlantic Scholarship 6 Itinerary 1 Cities 1 Madrid 2 Mexico City 3 Skyscrapers 4 The Eiffel Tower 5 The Viaduct 6 Electrical Wiring 2 Cafés 1 El Colonial and Pombo 2 Café de Nadie 3 Doors 4 Windows 5 Tables 6 Mirrors 3 Mobile Spaces 1 Trams 2 Automobiles 3 Airplanes 4 Pilots 5 Ships 4 The Ultraísta Sea 1 Borges’s Sea 2 Adriano del Valle’s Foam 3 Humberto Rivas’s Ocean 4 Guillermo de Torre’s High Tide 5 Harbours 6 Cathedrals Conclusion Bibliography Index
