Full Description
From propaganda posters to Pablo Picasso's Guernica, images of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) reemerge across the globe wherever fratricidal conflicts and crimes against humanity occur. The War's iconic visual language continues to shape contemporary painting, propaganda and advertising - a surprisingly long afterlife for a conflict lasting less than three years. This richly illustrated Companion explains this phenomenon, examining new sources and initiating fresh approaches to studying the visuality of the War and its legacies. The thirty-three essays collected here reveal the extent to which images helped - and still help - construct meaning around the War and other civil conflicts. Drawing on disciplines including art history, anthropology, history, art therapy, memory studies and forensic archaeology, the contributors' case studies show how visual representation united or divided wartime and postwar communities in Spain and beyond.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War
Eugenia Afinoguénova, Robert Lubar Messeri and Silvina Schammah Gesser
Part I. Aesthetics Under Pressure
1. Print Culture and the (Political) Discourses of Design in Josep Renau's Función Social del Cartel Publicitario (1937)
Jordana Mendelson
2. 'Women's Rightful Place': Images, Magazines and Mobilisation During the Spanish Civil War
Michel Otayek
3. 'This is how we are': Aesthetic Avant-Garde and Worker Ethics in Collectivised Spanish Cinema (1936-7)
Dolors Marín Silvestre and Jorge Gaupp
4. 'Dalinian Difficulties'
Robert Lubar Messeri
5. Children's Drawings in the Spanish Civil War: Exploring Child Agency Through Artwork from Propaganda to Therapy
Sarah Wright
6. 'Colonising Ourselves': The Redefinition of Racial Boundaries Around the Moroccan Soldier and the Worker in Spanish Civil War Propaganda
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard
7. 'The sad fate of Abyssinia': Internationalism, Race and Anti-colonialism in the Republican Military Press (1936-9)
Henry Brown
Part II. Looking for an International Audience
8. Documenting Atrocity: The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia and Images of the Spanish Civil War in New Times and Ethiopia News
Neelam Srivastava
9. The Spanish Civil War in Soviet and Chinese cartoons
Mariia Guleva
10. Child Refugees and the Iconographies of the Future During the Spanish Civil War
Eugenia Afinoguénova and Margarita Buitrago
11. Women in the Visual Culture of International Red Aid
Laura Branciforte
12. Female Icons: La Pasionaria, Santa Teresa and the Ambivalence of Gender
Miren Llona
13. The Rescue of the Prado: The International Effort to Protect Spain's Historical and Artistic Heritage During the Civil War
Arturo Colorado Castellary
14. The Spanish Participation at the 1938 Venice Biennale
Santiago Olábarri Oriol
Part III. Exile and Echoes from Abroad
15. Framing Transatlantic Exile: Proposing a New Perspective on Spanish Republican Women Artists Through the Work of Manuela Ballester
Carmen Gaitán Salinas
16. The Deep Imprint of Spanish Exile Artists in Chile
Miguel Cabañas Bravo
17. Moving Images: Spanish-American Families Forget the Spanish Civil War
James D. Fernández
18. From Guernica to Vietnam: The Spanish Civil War in American Art, 1939 to 1975
Beatriz Cordero Martín
19. Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War in East and West Germany
Teresa Pinheiro
20. 'Spain inside us': Echoes of the Civil War in an Always Changing Eastern Europe
Matei Chihaia
Part IV. The Civil War Under Dictatorship
21. Staging the Reconquest: The 1940 'Exposición de la Hispanidad'
Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide
22. The Hero in Spanish Post-War Comics: The Last Knights
Almudena Izquierdo Andreu
23. Starting Over: The Challenges of Recovering the Avant-garde in Post-war Catalonia and the Basque Country
Ismael Manterola Ispizua
24. The 'Recycling' of Spanish Civil War Images in Political Art of the 1960s and 1970s
Noemí de Haro García
25. Memory Accomplices: Imaginaries (and Spectres) of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution emerging in Clandestine Cinema Practices
Lidia Mateo Leivas
26. Images of Violence and 'Rebirth': On Collective Crime in the Civil War and the Shoah
Miguel Rivas Venegas
Part V. Visualising the War in Democratic Spain
27. Raising the Flag: Guernica's Transfer to the Reina Sofía Museum
Rocío Robles Tardío
28. Autoethnography and Visual Archaeology in Spanish Historical Comics
Samuel Amago
29. Memoryscapes of the Spanish Civil War
Carmen Ortiz
30. The Cutting Room Floor of Spain's Democracy
Emilio Silva
31. Beyond Erasure: Forensic Vision, the Politics of (in)Visibility, and Image Ecologies in Spanish Documentary
Lee Douglas
32. Gaze, Heritage, and Tourism of the Spanish Civil War: The Economy Behind Destination Culture Silvina Schammah Gesser and Irene Rincón Narros
33. Creating a New Memory? The Uneven Role of Public History
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
