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Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde
Contributor(s): Mangini, Shirley (Author)
ISBN: 0754669327     ISBN-13: 9780754669326
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $188.10  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | History - General
Dewey: 759.6
LCCN: 2009043763
Series: Ashgate Studies in Surrealism
Physical Information: 272 pages
 
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The first book in English on Maruja Mallo, this volume is an insightful examination of the life and work of this seminal artist of the Spanish avant-garde. Previously sidelined by a culture that treated women as "insider-outsiders" and by her own mythmaking, Mallo no longer can be viewed as simply a muse to famous counterparts such as Salvador Dal - and Federico Garc -a Lorca; her role has been re-contextualized to demonstrate that she was a driving force in the flowering of Spanish culture through the 1920s and 1930s. The analysis of Mallo's unique life and extraordinary art is set against the complicated social and political backdrop of interwar Madrid. This book highlights the struggle of Mallo and other women artists against the rampant misogyny of both Spanish culture and the avant-garde community of the time. The effects of the Spanish Civil War are also analyzed-in Mallo's case, Franco's victory forced her into exile in South America for almost 30 years, with profound effects on her art and her life. Added to this rich context, the author's numerous interviews with members of the Mallo family provide essential new background material. Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde recasts this artist as a vital figure in the heretofore all-male establishment of the Spanish artistic vanguard.