Barcelona

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Barcelona - Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day.
General Introduction: Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulfield Part I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia Chapter 1: Carlota Caulfield: Breaking Boundaries: A Journey through the Catalan Avant-Garde Chapter 2: Stephen Forcer: On the starfish road: Surrealism and the Paris-Barcelona connection Chapter 3: Louise Johnson: The Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot Chapter 4: Cafe Central: a groundbreaking independent publishing house in Barcelona Interview with Antoni Clapes by Carlota Caulfield Part II: Butterflying Barcelona: The Environment Chapter 5: Maria Paz Balibrea: The case for obsolescence: thinking time and space in Joaquim Jorda's Numax presenta Chapter 6: Natalia Nunez: Whose vanguardist city? The Barcelona urban model as seen from the periphery in Jose Luis Guerin's En construccion Chapter 7: Elisenda Marcer: The Raval on Stage: Limits and borders in Juan Mayorga's Hamelin Chapter 8: Josep-Anton Fernandez: Translating the Enigma: Ventura Pons's Barcelona: un mapa Chapter 9: Lidewij Tummers: Empowerment by visualization: experiences from Barcelona Part III: Performing Barcelona Chapter 10: Helena Buffery/ Angels Margarit: Tracing the City in the URBS project and Solo por placer Chapter 11: Maria Delgado: Performing Barcelona: cultural tourism, geography and identity Chapter 12: Cariad Astles: Absent Bodies and Objects Chapter 13: Anna Wilson: A Broken Mirror? Global/local images of Barcelona Chapter 14: Carlota Caulfield: Talking about Visual Poetry: Interviews with J. M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Arts visuels
• Histoire
• Spain
• Spain (groupe)
• History
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708324820
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Iberian and Latin American Studies

Barcelona Visual Culture, Space and Power

Edited by Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulield

University of Wales Press

Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power

Series Editors Professor David George (Swansea University) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)

Editorial Board David Frier (University of Leeds) Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool) Gareth Walters (Swansea University) Rob Stone (Swansea University) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham) Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)

Other titles in the series From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage: The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film Stuart Nishan Green Galdós’sTorquemadaNovels: Waste and Profit in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain Teresa Fuentes Peris Killing Carmens: Women’s Crime Fiction from Spain Shelley Godsland Modern Argentine Poetry: Exile, Displacement, Migration Ben Bollig Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy Kathryn Crameri Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain Roger Bartra The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’sProverbios y Cantares Nicolas Fernandez-Medina Shakespeare in Catalan: Translating Imperialism Helena Buffery The Novels of José Saramago: Echoes from the Past, Pathways into the Future David G. Frier Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Social Identity in Spain, 1850 – 1960 Richard Cleminson & Francisco Vàzquez Garcia Los Invisibles:A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1940 Richard Cleminson & Francisco Vàzquez Garcia Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and Fiction Lloyd Hughes Davies Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture Yaw Agawu-Kakraba Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain: Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform Alison Sinclair Western Sahara: The Refugee Nation Pablo San Martín Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities Eli Bartra The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes Tom Whittaker

Barcelona: Space

Visual Culture, and Power

Edited by

HELENA BUFFERY AND CARLOTA CAULFIELD

© The contributors, 2012

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Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Contributors

Introduction: Helena Buffery

Contents

‘Butterflying Barcelona’ and Carlota Caulfield

Part I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia Chapter 1: Breaking Boundaries: A Journey through the Catalan Avant-Garde Carlota Caulfield Chapter 2: On the Starfish Road: Surrealism and the Paris–Barcelona Connection Stephen Forcer Chapter 3: The Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot P. Louise Johnson

Chapter 4: Cafè Central: a groundbreaking independent publishing house in Barcelona. Interview with Antoni Clapés Carlota Caulfield Part II: Butterflying Barcelona: The Environment Chapter 5: The Case for Obsolescence: Thinking Time and Space in Joaquim Jordà’sNumax presenta Maria Paz Balibrea Chapter 6: Whose Vanguardist City? The Barcelona Urban Model as Seen from the Periphery in José Luis Guerín’s En construcción Natalia Nuñez

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Chapter 7: The Raval on Stage: Limits and Borders in Juan Mayorga’sHamelin Elisenda Marcer Chapter 8: Translating the Enigma: Temporality and Subjectivity in Ventura Pons’s Barcelona: un mapa Josep-Anton Fernàndez Chapter 9: Empowerment by Visualization: Experiences from Barcelona Lidewij Tummers Part III: Performing Barcelona Chapter 10: Tracing the City through the URBS Project Helena Buffery and Àngels Margarit Chapter 11: Performing Barcelona: Cultural Tourism, Geography and Identity Maria M. Delgado Chapter 12: Absent Bodies and Objects Cariad Astles Chapter 13: A Broken Mirror? Global–Local Images of Barcelona Anna Wilson Chapter 14: Talking about Visual Poetry: Interviews with J. M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals Carlota Caulfieldet al. Works Cited Index

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Series

Editors’

Foreword

Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superceded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds – categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa. In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curricu- lum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of cultural production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.