The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0198160003
- ISBN-13
- 9780198160007
- Series
- The Moderns
- Category
- Aesthetics, Spanish
- Pages
- 206
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Paul Julian Smith
Description
This book offers a radically new account of the rich and varied culture of contemporary Spain. It focuses on three intellectuals who chronicle contemporary life (including journalist Francisco Umbral); three filmmakers who engage with the many nationalisms of the Spanish state (Victor Erice, Bigas Luna, and Julio Medem); and three crucial topics that are expressed in many media (the replaying of history, the rise and fall of the city, and the practice of everyday life). Ranging from the ethnographic photography of Cristina García Rodero to the high tech architecture of Santiago Calatrava and from the hyperrealist painting of Antonio López to the neo-flamenco dance of Joaquín Cortés, this book is also the first to draw on theorists of the intellectual field, the production of space, and the arts of bricolage (Pierre Bourdieu, Henri Lefebvre, and Michel de Certeau). Refuting the charge that contemporary Spanish culture is trivial or superficial, this book argues that it is fully engaged in the aesthetic and historical project of modernity.
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