Transformation as Legitimation of a “New State”: The role of Visual Media in Mass Celebrations during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1940)
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Mónica Vázquez Astorga
Abstract
This article analyses the relationships between art and politics in Spain under the control of Franco’s army from 1938 to 1940 and focusses on artistic expression at the ceremonial events organised by the Visual Arts Department. This contribution examines some of the most important mass events during this period by exploring their representation spaces, staging, propaganda purpose and meaning. These aspects were related to mass celebrations organized by Italian Fascist and German National-Socialist regime. Those events were based on reclaiming and appropriating classical antiquity, especially ancient Imperial Rome. The aim of mass celebrations in Franco’s Spain was to associate the most glorious moments of the imperial past with what the regime called the “New State” and thus, to demonstrate its ideological legitimacy
Abstract
This article analyses the relationships between art and politics in Spain under the control of Franco’s army from 1938 to 1940 and focusses on artistic expression at the ceremonial events organised by the Visual Arts Department. This contribution examines some of the most important mass events during this period by exploring their representation spaces, staging, propaganda purpose and meaning. These aspects were related to mass celebrations organized by Italian Fascist and German National-Socialist regime. Those events were based on reclaiming and appropriating classical antiquity, especially ancient Imperial Rome. The aim of mass celebrations in Franco’s Spain was to associate the most glorious moments of the imperial past with what the regime called the “New State” and thus, to demonstrate its ideological legitimacy
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Danksagung V
- Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
- Einführung 1
- Introducción 13
- La configuración semántica de πολιτικὸν ζῷον y su transformación en los comentarios medievales y modernos a la Política de Aristóteles 25
- Die Inscriptiones sacrosanctæ vetustatis (1534) 57
- Kulturtransfer und Transformation durch Übersetzung 75
- Antikenrezeption im akademischen Aktstudium 99
- Requeno und Winckelmann: Aneignung, Transformation und Aktualisierung antiken Wissens im maltechnischen Diskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts 131
- Keine Antike? Überlegungen zur faschistischfranquistischen Monumentalarchitektur in Spanien 161
- Transformation as Legitimation of a “New State”: The role of Visual Media in Mass Celebrations during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1940) 195
- ,Älteste Geschichte des Westens‘ 217
- Der stolze Kastilianer: Die Romanze des 18. Jahrhunderts als Transformationsmedium altspanischer soberbia 239
- Namensregister 263
- Orts- und Länderregister 269
- Autorenverzeichnis 271
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Danksagung V
- Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
- Einführung 1
- Introducción 13
- La configuración semántica de πολιτικὸν ζῷον y su transformación en los comentarios medievales y modernos a la Política de Aristóteles 25
- Die Inscriptiones sacrosanctæ vetustatis (1534) 57
- Kulturtransfer und Transformation durch Übersetzung 75
- Antikenrezeption im akademischen Aktstudium 99
- Requeno und Winckelmann: Aneignung, Transformation und Aktualisierung antiken Wissens im maltechnischen Diskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts 131
- Keine Antike? Überlegungen zur faschistischfranquistischen Monumentalarchitektur in Spanien 161
- Transformation as Legitimation of a “New State”: The role of Visual Media in Mass Celebrations during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1940) 195
- ,Älteste Geschichte des Westens‘ 217
- Der stolze Kastilianer: Die Romanze des 18. Jahrhunderts als Transformationsmedium altspanischer soberbia 239
- Namensregister 263
- Orts- und Länderregister 269
- Autorenverzeichnis 271
