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Waiting at the Shore - Art, Revolution, War and Exile in the Life of the Spanish Artist Luis Quintanilla (Paperback, New)
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Waiting at the Shore - Art, Revolution, War and Exile in the Life of the Spanish Artist Luis Quintanilla (Paperback, New)
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Waiting at the Shore chronicles the extraordinary life of the
Spanish artist Luis Quintanilla, championed by Ernest Hemingway,
John Dos Passos, Elliot Paul, and many other American and European
writers and artists. In 1912, at the age of 18, he ran off to
Montmartre where, under the influence of his fellow countryman Juan
Gris, he began his artistic career as a Cubist. Returning to Madrid
before the war he befriended prominent Spaniards, including Juan
Negrin, the Premier during the Spanish Civil War. In April 1931 he
and Negrin participated in the peaceful revolution which ousted the
monarchy and installed the Second Spanish Republic. When civil war
broke out Quintanilla helped lead troops on Madrid's Montana
Barracks, which saved the capital for the Republic. "Because great
painters," as Hemingway put it, "are scarcer than good soldiers,"
the Spanish government [Negrin] ordered Quintanilla out of the army
after the fascists were stopped outside Madrid. The artist
completed 140 drawings of the various fronts of the war which were
exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art, with a catalogue by
Hemingway. After the Republic lost the war Quintanilla was forced
into an exile which lasted several decades. Living in New York and
in Paris he strove to perfect his art, shunning the modernist
vogues of the time. Although a celebrity when he first arrived in
the United States he eventually fell into obscurity. This volume,
which is heavily illustrated, brings him out of the shadows of
neglect, and provides the compelling story of an artist who led not
just an extraordinary life but left a legacy of paintings and
drawings which, in both their skill and great imaginative variety,
should be known to all art lovers.
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