This book reads the work of Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillen, Juan Larrea, Gerardo Diego, Rafael Alberti, Concha Mendez, and Federico Garcia Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Candelas Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism.

This multidisciplinary study focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the work of numerous poets, artists, and philosophers from twentieth-century Spain. Beginning with cognitive science, Gala explores the mental processes and structures that underline creative thinking, for poets like Jose Maria Hinojosa, Clara Janes, and Jorge Guillen.

This book reads the work of Salinas, Guillen, Larrea, Diego, Alberti, Mendez, and Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and with the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism.