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Framing Majismo - Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Paperback)
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Framing Majismo - Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Paperback)
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Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic
in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as
a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual
representations of popular types participating in traditional
customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish,
majismo conferred on Spanish “citizens” the pictorial ideal of
a shared national character. In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi
explores nobles’ fascination with and appropriation of the
practices and types associated with majismo, as well as how this
connection cultivated the formation of an elite Spanish identity in
the late 1700s and aided the Bourbons’ objective to fashion
themselves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular, the
book considers artistic and literary representations of the majo
and the maja, purportedly native types who embodied and performed
uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo
emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating
eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, national character, and
noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were
contrasted with those regarded as “foreign,” finding that
“foreign” and “national” bodies were frequently described
and depicted in similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances
of bodily representation, ultimately showing how the body and the
emergent nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical
moment for both.
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