Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona / Edition 1

by Temma Kaplan

Overview

In Red City, Blue Period, Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry sometimes galvanized resistance to authoritarian national governments but could not always overcome local class and gender struggles. She sheds light on the process by which principles of regional freedom and economic equity developed and changed in a city long known for its commitment to human dignity and artistic achievement.

Although scholars increasingly recognize the relationship between so-called high art and popular culture, little has been done to explain what opens the eyes of artists to folk figures and religious art. Kaplan shows how artists like Picasso and Joan Miró, playwright Santiago Russinyol, the cellist Pablo Casals, and the architect Antonio Gaudí, as well as anarchists and other political activists, both shaped and were influenced by the artistic and political culture of Barcelona.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520084407
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/12/1993
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Temma Kaplan is Professor of Women's Studies and History at the State University of New York at Stonybrook. Her previous book, Anarchists of Andalusia, 1868-1903, won the Berkshire Society Prize for the best book by a woman historian in 1977.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: The Symbolic Landscape
1. Resistance and Ritual, 1888-1896
2. Popular Art and Rituals
3. Community Celebrations and Communal Strikes,1902
4. Women Out of Control
5. Female Consciousness and Community Struggle,1910-1918
6. Democratic Promises in 1917
7. Urban Disorder and Cultural Resistance,1919-1930
8. Cultural Reactions to the Spanish Republic and the Civil War in Barcelona
Epilogue: Cultural Resistance in the Aftermath
APPENDIX
Map 1. Landmarks in Downtown Barcelona, 1808-1937
Map 2. Processions, Parades, and Demonstrations, 1808-1902
Map 3. Demonstrations and Funeral Processions, 1905-1920
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX