Main entry:

Encuentros con los años '30. English.

Title & Author:

Encounters with the 30s.

Publication:

[Madrid] : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía : La Fabrica, [2012]
©2012

Description:

423 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 2, 2012-Jan. 7, 2013.
Exhibition curator: Jordana Mendelson.
Translations from Spanish and French into English by Philip Sutton.
"Chronology": pages 398-405
Published also in Spanish under title: Encuentros con los años '30.
Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

Preceded by the heroic modernism of the 1920s and abruptly curtailed by World War II, the heterogeneous art movements of the 1930s have been comparatively neglected as concurrent cultural phenomena. The 30s were much more than a period of transition or crisis, witnessing as they did the massive expansion of Surrealism, and fervent debate between new movements in abstract and realist painting. Political turbulence was of course rife at this time, with the rise of totalitarian governments and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, provoking a fluid migration of artists across borders and unlikely exchanges of ideas. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Reina Sof̕a Museum in Madrid, Encounters with the 30s explores the micro-histories of the decade. Surrealism is covered in detail, along with abstract art (such as the Concrete Art, Circle, American Abstract Artist and Abstraction-Creation movements) and Mexican Realism, and key exhibitions of the period (such as the Nazis' "Degenerate Art" shows and the World Fairs); photography, political poster art and the Spanish Civil War comprise other sections. The monograph is amply illustrated with works by Arp, Brassa̐, Calder, Delaunay, Ernst, Gabo, Hepworth, Mir̤, Picasso, Weston and many lesser known artists of the era

ISBN:

9788415691013
8415691017

Subject:

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Exhibitions.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Museum exhibits Spain Madrid.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Nineteen thirties Exhibitions.
Objets exposés Espagne Madrid.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Années trente (Vingtième siècle) Expositions.
Art, Modern
Museum exhibits
Nineteen thirties
Spain Madrid
Art 1930-1940.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
Books.

Added entries:

Mendelson, Jordana, curator.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, host institution.

Encounters with the thirties
Half-title: Encounters with the 1930s

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282637
Call No.: BIB 220324
Status: Available