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.