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.

About the author

Oscar E. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Inventing the Art Collection: Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain, also published by Penn State.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Oscar E. V¿uez, Oscar E. Vaazquez, Oscar E. Vazquez, Oscar E. (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Vazquez, Oscar E. Vázquez
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2017
• EAN: 9780271071213
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07121-3
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1520 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Western, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Spanish Civil War, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Europe / Spain