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Barcelona : Visual Culture, Space and Power.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Iberian and Latin American StudiesPublisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780708324820
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: BarcelonaDDC classification:
  • 306.094672
LOC classification:
  • N6490
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: 'Butterflying Barcelona' -- Part I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia -- Chapter 1: Breaking Boundaries: A Journey through theCatalan Avant-Garde -- Chapter 2: On the Starfish Road: Surrealism and theParis-Barcelona Connection -- Chapter 3: The Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot -- Chapter 4: Cafè Central: a groundbreaking independent publishinghouse in Barcelona. Interview with Antoni Clapés -- Part II: Butterflying Barcelona: The Environment -- Chapter 5: The Case for Obsolescence: Thinking Time and Spacein Joaquim Jordà's Numax presenta -- Chapter 6: Whose Vanguardist City? The Barcelona Urban Modelas Seen from the Periphery in José Luis Guerín's -- Chapter 7: The Raval on Stage: Limits andBorders in Juan Mayorga's Hamelin -- Chapter 8: Translating the Enigma:Temporality and Subjectivity in Ventura Pons's -- Chapter 9: Empowerment by Visualization: Experiences fromBarcelona -- Part III: Performing Barcelona -- Chapter 10: Tracing the City through the URBS Project -- Chapter 11: Performing Barcelona: Cultural Tourism, Geographyand Identity -- Chapter 12: Absent Bodies and Objects -- Chapter 13: A Broken Mirror? Global-LocalImages of Barcelona -- Chapter 14: Talking about Visual Poetry: Interviews withJ. M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: 'Butterflying Barcelona' -- Part I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia -- Chapter 1: Breaking Boundaries: A Journey through theCatalan Avant-Garde -- Chapter 2: On the Starfish Road: Surrealism and theParis-Barcelona Connection -- Chapter 3: The Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot -- Chapter 4: Cafè Central: a groundbreaking independent publishinghouse in Barcelona. Interview with Antoni Clapés -- Part II: Butterflying Barcelona: The Environment -- Chapter 5: The Case for Obsolescence: Thinking Time and Spacein Joaquim Jordà's Numax presenta -- Chapter 6: Whose Vanguardist City? The Barcelona Urban Modelas Seen from the Periphery in José Luis Guerín's -- Chapter 7: The Raval on Stage: Limits andBorders in Juan Mayorga's Hamelin -- Chapter 8: Translating the Enigma:Temporality and Subjectivity in Ventura Pons's -- Chapter 9: Empowerment by Visualization: Experiences fromBarcelona -- Part III: Performing Barcelona -- Chapter 10: Tracing the City through the URBS Project -- Chapter 11: Performing Barcelona: Cultural Tourism, Geographyand Identity -- Chapter 12: Absent Bodies and Objects -- Chapter 13: A Broken Mirror? Global-LocalImages of Barcelona -- Chapter 14: Talking about Visual Poetry: Interviews withJ. M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals -- Works Cited -- Index.

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.

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