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This book offers a radically new account of the rich and varied culture of contemporary Spain. It focuses on three intellectuals who chronicle contemporary life (including journalist Francisco Umbral); three filmmakers who engage with the many nationalisms of the Spanish state (Victor Erice, Bigas Luna, and Julio Medem); and three crucial topics that are expressed in many media (the replaying of history, the rise and fall of the city, and the practice of everyday life). Ranging from the ethnographic photography of Cristina Garcia Rodero to the high tech architecture of Santiago Calatrava and from the hyperrealist painting of Antonio Lopez to the neo-flamenco dance of Joaquin Cortes, this book is also the first to draw on theorists of the intellectual field, the production of space, and the arts of bricolage (Pierre Bourdieu, Henri Lefebvre, and Michel de Certeau). Refuting the charge that contemporary Spanish culture is trivial or superficial, this book argues that it is fully engaged in the aesthetic and historical project of modernity.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Moderns
• Subtitle: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture
• Author: Paul Julian Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218
• EAN: 9780198160014
• ISBN: 0198160011
• ID: 04522390
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 300 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 163 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. March 2000

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