Painting And The Turn To Cultural Modernity in Spain - The Time of Eugenio Lucas Velazquez (1850-1870) (Hardcover)

Cultural modernity has been defined as a focus on the means of representation themselves. The crucial moment is usually located in France, with the emergence of Edouard Manet, but cultural historians often speak of a plurality of modernities. This study in cultural history explores how a radical turn to cultural modernity occurred in the Spain of the 1850s and early 1860s. The book investigates the key painter Eugenio Lucas Velazquez, and his continual, playful, art historical pastiche. Unlike the treatment of pastiche in Manet and his successors, Lucas's paintings refuse any assertion of a unique artistic identity or modern manner, thus challenging many theorizations of modernity. This highly interdisciplinary book focuses on the interaction between Lucas and his dynamic context. In exploring the potentially irresolvable nature of many of the dilemmas facing intellectuals of the time, it argues that cultural modernity is a plural series of problems resistant to closed description. The book includes twenty-five illustrations, eight of which are in color.

General

Imprint:	Susquehanna University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	August 2007
Authors:	Andrew Ginger
Dimensions:	165 x 240 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-1-57591-113-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-57591-113-2
Barcode:	9781575911137

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