For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep
rivalry. Throughout history, they have competed in practically
every aspect of social life, sport, politics, and culture. While
competition between cities is commonplace in many nations around
the world, in the case of Barcelona and Madrid it has been, on
occasion, excessively antagonistic. Over time they have each tried
to demonstrate that one was more modern than the other, or more
avant-garde, or richer, or more athletic, and so on. Fortunately,
the Spain of today is a democracy and every nation and region of
the State has the liberty to act. As such, the rivalry between
these two capitals has become productive not only for the cities
themselves, but also for Spain as a whole. One hundred years ago,
at the onset of the Historical Avant-Garde in Spain, the
connections between Barcelona and Madrid consisted of a complicated
web of politics, friendships, publications, and inter-art
collaborations. Over the last century, the antagonistic
relationship between these two cultural capitals has been dismissed
as simply a fact of life and thereby scholars, for the most part,
have focused only on Barcelona or Madrid when addressing this
cultural moment. By delving deep into the myriad of cultural and
political complexities that surround these two cities from the
onset of Futurism (1909) to the arrival of Surrealism in Spain
(1929), a complex social and cultural network is revealed.
Networking between artists, poets, journalists and thinkers
connected avant-garde Barcelona and Madrid, thereby creating
synergy for this artistic and literary movement. In a hybrid,
transdisciplarian, translingual and historical approach using a
wide range of visual and textual artifacts, the complexity of
interactions described here opens our imagination to new ways of
thinking about culture.
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