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Mangini Gonzalez, Shirley, 1946-

Maruja Mallo and the Spanish avant-garde / Shirley Mangini. - Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2010. - ix, 248 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. - Ashgate studies in surrealism .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mallo's early years. Mallo's childhood -- Spanish art in the early 20th century -- The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando -- The Residencia de Estudiantes -- Maruja Mallo and the "Residencia" -- Mallo's rise to fame. The Verbenas and prints series -- Mallo's debut at the Revista de Occidente offices -- Surrealism in Madrid. The "generation of 27" -- The complicated relationship between Mallo and Rafael Alberti -- The "Vallecas School" -- The impact of sewers and belfries in Madrid -- The 1930s : from Surrealism to humanism. Mallo in Paris -- Mallo's return to Madrid : the new humanism -- Pablo Neruda and the "generation of 27" -- Miguel Hern�andez -- Mallo's final months in Spain -- Mallo's exile in Argentina. The civil war years and the religion of work series -- The 1940s : the new Mallo -- The 1950s : Mallo's alienation in Buenos Aires -- Mallo's return to Madrid. Madrid in the 1960s -- The end of the Franco dictatorship and the recovery of the avant-garde -- The 1980s : Mallo's descent into darkness -- An appraisal of Mallo at the turn of the 21st century.

9780754669326 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0754669327 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Mallo, Maruja.--Criticism and interpretation.


Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Spain--20th century.

N7113.M27 / M36 2010

759.6 / M277

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