The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts--paintings, furniture, even ladies' fans--increased sharply in nineteenth-century Spain, and new institutions and practices for exhibiting as well as valorizing "art" were soon formed. Oscar Vazquez maps this cultural landscape, tracing the connections between the growth of art markets and changing patterns of collecting. Unlike many earlier students of collecting, he focuses not upon questions of taste but rather upon the discursive and institutional frameworks that came to regulate art's economic and symbolic worth at all...
The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts--paintings, furniture, even ladies' fans--increased sharply in nineteenth-century...
As fin de siglo Spain struggled with perceived decadence and decline, the visual arts reflected the debate and influenced the outcome. This volume argues that the way artists understood and depicted the concepts of degeneration and regeneration is essential to understanding the broader societal conversation and is inseparable from definitions of Spanish modernism.
Oscar E. Vazquez examines how painting, sculpture, drawing, and popular illustrated materials approached "endings" and "beginnings" during the Bourbon monarchy's restoration. Throughout this period, people inside...
As fin de siglo Spain struggled with perceived decadence and decline, the visual arts reflected the debate and influenced the outcome. Thi...
