A Dream of Arcadia: Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905University of Texas Press, 2014 M08 19 - 300 páginas The dream of “progress” that animated many nineteenth-century artistic and political movements gave way at the turn of the century to a dissatisfaction with the Industrial Civilization and a recurrent pessimism about a future dominated by mechanization. Art Nouveau, which was both a style and a movement, embodied this dissatisfaction, marking the turn-of-the-century period with an aesthetic that consciously set out to revolutionize literature, the arts, and society within the framework of a brutalizing, wildly burgeoning Industrial Civilization. Generally associated with northern European culture, Art Nouveau also had a great impact in the south, particularly in Spain. A Dream of Arcadia is the first work to explore Spain’s fertile and imaginative Art Nouveau. Through the eyes of four major Spanish writers, Lily Litvak views several different aspects of the turn-of-the-century struggle against the advances of industrialism in Spain. Her interpretation of the early works of Ramón del Valle Inclán, Miguel de Unamuno, José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín), and Pío Baroja exposes a longing for a preindustrial arcadia based on a return to nature, the revival of handicrafts and medieval art, an attraction to rural primitive societies, and a revulsion against the modern city. Set against the European literary and artistic background of the period, her observations place the Spanish manifestations of Art Nouveau within the context of the better-known northern phenomena. Of particular interest is her discussion of the influences of John Ruskin, William Morris, and the Pre-Raphaelites, which demonstrates how the general European mood was articulated in Spain. Litvak concludes that Valle Inclán, Unamuno, Azorín, and Baroja must be considered as more than simply fin de siècle writers, for they became part of a general movement, generated by Art Nouveau, that spans an entire century. A Dream of Arcadia demonstrates that Art Nouveau was more than a flash on Europe's artistic horizon; it is a philosophy with ramifications that have led to communes, handcrafted articles, and nomadic adolescents in search of truth. |
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... workers to machinesand locked them intoan unjustsocial order. Ruskin's blendof aesthetics andsocial theory was to have a profound effecton writers by theturn of the century. Despite the factthathe contradicts himself in his ...
... workers' unrest, andwar,Spain was an energeticcountry, vigorously engagedinindustrial expansion. A burst ofintellectual andcreative activitybrought the country to the vanguard of European civilization. The industrial expansion can be ...
... workers against employers, art against science, science against religion, the present against the past, the masses against the elite.Some writers began to attack the divisionof labor,thenomadism of theworkers, the disintegration ofthe ...
... workers' parties themselves as well as with thecapitalist society. Industrial objects and factory work had come to be regarded asalienating agentsforthe worker. Machinemade objects meant the rupturewith a pastandharmoniously organized ...
... worker to hisemployer. Previously, the craftsman coulddevelop his art while he worked, stopping to reflect on whathehad created, and interweaving work and creation. Now theworker submitted tothehours and rules of the owner. The great ...
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The Failureofthe | |
TheReturntotheCommon | |
The Return to Nature | |
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Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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A Dream of Arcadia: Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905 Lily Litvak Vista previa limitada - 1975 |
A Dream of Arcadia: Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905 Lily Litvak Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
A Dream of Arcadia: Anti-Industrialism in Spanish LIterature, 1895–1905 Lily Litvak Vista de fragmentos - 1975 |