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The end again : degeneration and visual culture in modern Spain

"Explores 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"--Provided by publisher

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vázquez, Oscar E. (Autor, VerfasserIn)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press , [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notas de Autor:Oscar E. Vázquez
Descripción
Sumario:"Explores 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"--Provided by publisher
Fragmentation : Fortuny's frame and the melancholy of the new -- Suture : academies, national styles, and the decadence of Spanish arts -- Exhaustion : degeneration in fin de siglo Spanish arts -- Parody : exhibition spaces and modernism -- Containment : colonialism and the specter of collapse -- (Dis)inheritance : rachitic bodies and medical discourses -- Decay : or, the aristocracy's degeneration -- Displacements : Regoyos, Verhaeren, and España negra
Notas:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223]-246) and index
Descripción Física:xvi, 251 Seiten Illustrationen 27 cm
ISBN:9780271071213