Search results for ""author eric storm""
Manchester University Press The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890–1939
This pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the Belle Époque until the Eve of the Second World War. By using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism. Storm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-garde.Regional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in France, Germany and Spain. Artists, architects and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this process. They all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unity.This book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of France, Germany and Spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies and architectural history.
£85.00
Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica El descubrimiento del Greco nacionalismo y arte moderno 18601914
Encuadernació: RústicaLa rápida revalorización del Greco más de tres siglos después de su muerte (1614) es uno de los fenómenos más interesantes y espectaculares de los estudios modernos sobre los antiguos maestros de la pintura y del mercado del arte en el siglo XX. Aunque celebrado en vida por algunos de sus retablos, el cretense cayó pronto casi en el olvido, y hasta bien entrado el siglo XIX se denostaron sus extravagancias y sus inquietantes figuras alargadas, que sólo podían ser ?o eso se pensaba? obra de un loco. Sin embargo, alrededor de 1860 el Greco cobró un protagonismo inusitado. La recuperación de su fama se inició con impresionistas como Manet y Degas, que le consideraban un adelantado a su tiempo por su personal lenguaje estético, su uso atrevido del color y su originalidad. A ellos les siguieron historiadores del arte como Justi y Cossío, y pintores que incluso llegaron a ver en él a uno de los principales precursores de su obra de vanguardia, entre ellos Picasso y K
£28.85
Liverpool University Press Discovery of El Greco: The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860-1914)
Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco -- seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyses how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of the Impressionists -- due primarily to the German critic Julius Meier-Graefe's influential History of Modern Art (1914). This shift in artistic preference has been attributed to the rise of modern art but Eric Storm, a cultural historian, shows that in the case of El Greco nationalist motives were even more important. This study examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both specialists and the interested art public.
£30.00
