[...]... true for other cultural areas; in cultural matters, "ideology rather than expertise was uppermost." According to Angel Llorente, "as in other fascist regimes, in the Spanish regime official culture was transformed into propaganda and into a tool of the politics of domination."2 By the end of the Franco period, serious intellectuals even felt obliged to pose the question, "Does a Spanish culture exist?"3... nationalistic Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 i Pablo Picasso, Before (1900) Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 2 Pablo Picasso, After (1900) Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 DAVID T GIES Modern Spanish culture: An introduction Suddenly, Spain seems to be exporting... historical markers appear which serve as convenient sign-posts for a discussion of contemporary history and culture While various historians and critics would insert their own dates - for some, 1875 (the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy; this is where Alvarez Junco begins his look at modern Spanish history) would come to mind as rapidly as 1898 (the loss of the last three Spanish colonies in the. .. G.PERRIAM v Culture and theater 15 Theater and culture, 1868-1936 211 DRU DOUGHERTY 16 Theater and culture, 1936-1996 222 PHYLLIS ZATLIN vi Culture and the arts 17 Painting and sculpture in modern Spain 239 JOSE MARTIN MARTINEZ 18 Culture and cinema to 1975 248 KATHLEEN M VERNON 19 Culture and cinema, 1975-1996 267 PETER W EVANS 20 A century of Spanish architecture 278 LUIS FERNANDEZ-GALIANO 21 Spanish. .. Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Contents 22 To live is to dance 298 LAURA KUMIN VII Media 23 The media in modern Spanish culture 309 PHILIP DEACON Index 318 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 xi Illustrations 1 Pablo Picasso, Before (1900) (the Yoshii Gallery, New York, Artists' Rights Society, New York) xxx 2 Pablo Picasso, After (1900) (the. .. of the past has specifiable ideological implications"),5 it is nonetheless a good starting point since it does mark an important shift in modern Spanish history and culture The "Glorious" Revolution of 1868 ejected the by then despised and immoral Queen Isabel II from her throne with the cry "No more Bourbons," and ushered in a period which witnessed the middle class's rapid move to the center of Cambridge. .. books, editions, and translations related to contemporary Spanish theater, cross-cultural approaches to theater, and contemporary Spanish women writers In 1997 she was given a special award from the SGAE for her work promoting Spanish theater in the United States Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Acknowledgements It is a cliche - but none the less true for being so - that many... moment in the history of vanguard art 1926 The experimental theater group El Mirlo Blanco, directed by Cipriano de Rivas Cherif, is founded in Madrid 1928 Ernesto Gimenez Caballero founds the Cine-Club Espana; Antonia Merce, the incomparable "La Argentina," presents her Ballets Espagnols de La Argentina, the first repertory Spanish dance company, in Paris 1929 The "talkies" arrive in Madrid; the Teatro... Aresti publishes Hani eta herri (Stone and [a] People) New laws of the press significantly relax the effects of censorship; first Spanish stagings of the plays of Bertold Brecht 14 December: Referendum on the Organic Law of the State First annual Sitges Theater Festival Euskera Batua, the first unified standard for the Basque language, is developed by the Basque Academy; Spanish premiere of Weiss's play... Professor ofSpanish and Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas She has published books on Carmen Laforet, Gabriel Miro, and Azorin's libraries She is also the author of Crossfire: Philosophy and the Novel in Spain, 1900-1934 Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation SANTOSjULiAis Professor of the History of . Press, 2006 Cambridge Companions to Culture The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture editedby EVA KoLiNSKYarcd WILFRIED VAN DER WILL The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture editedby . alt="" Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, . NICHOLAS RZHEVSKY The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture editedby DAVID T. GIES Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University