The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain

Synopsis

Explores How Definitions Of Spanish Modernisms From 1874 To 1923 Were Dependent Upon The Concepts Of Degeneration And Regeneration. Analyzes The Relation Between These Concepts By Examining Representations Of The Body In Specific Spaces--provided By Publisher. Fragmentation : Fortuny's Frame And The Melancholy Of The New -- Suture : Academies, National Styles, And The Decadence Of Spanish Arts -- Exhaustion : Degeneration In Fin De Siglo Spanish Arts -- Parody : Exhibition Spaces And Modernism -- Containment : Colonialism And The Specter Of Collapse -- (dis)inheritance : Rachitic Bodies And Medical Discourses -- Decay : Or, The Aristocracy's Degeneration -- Displacements : Regoyos, Verhaeren, And España Negra. Oscar E. Vázquez. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.