The artist as historian-politician Romantic historicism, art, and architecture in the performance of cultural nationalism in Pérez Villaamil and Escosura’s España artística y monumental (1842-50)
This article analyses the sophisticated performance of cultural nationalism in the first instalment of España artística y monumental. It examines how the work’s creators interpreted the Catholic identity of Spain through their political viewpoint aligned with the Partido Moderado, the Spanish libera...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of art historiography |
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| Format: | Online |
| Sprache: | eng |
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December 2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This article analyses the sophisticated performance of cultural nationalism in the first instalment of España artística y monumental. It examines how the work’s creators interpreted the Catholic identity of Spain through their political viewpoint aligned with the Partido Moderado, the Spanish liberal conservative party; the process by which they sought to make that identity real, concrete, and persuasive, and the roles of historian, politician, and architect played by the work’s illustrator: painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil. Special attention is paid to the intellectual framework that enabled the project, with a particular focus on the epistemology of Romantic historicism and aesthetics, the understanding of the nation as a civilisation, and the weight assigned to architecture as historical proof. The article also scrutinises the readership experience in order to reveal a potential unusually effective nationalist performance of España artística y monumental in its strategic sequencing of monuments, its interpretation of these monuments through a simultaneously visual and verbal discourse, and the broad dissemination achieved by the work thanks to its printed medium. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (46 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISSN: | 2042-4752 |