{"title":"Lingering over Graphic Descriptions of Grand State Ceremonials and Festivities: Stirling Maxwell and the Role of the Artist in Golden-Age Spain*","authors":"Hilary Macartney","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1621097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1621097","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the remarkable contribution of Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818–1878) towards a modern understanding of the interdisciplinarity of the arts which was fundamental to the multi-faceted role of the artist in Early Modern Spain and the Habsburg empire. As the first chronological history of Spanish art, which contextualized art by demonstrating the close links—indeed interdependence—between the visual arts, literature and theatre, and the patronage of Church and State, Stirling’s Annals of the Artists of Spain (1848) earned a pioneering place in the emerging discipline of art history. We trace the evolution of Stirling’s interest in both festivals and art, and their interrelationship, citing evidence from his early travels on the Continent, his published works, and his outstanding collections of Spanish art and of festival books, focusing especially on the multiple copies of Torre Farfán’s Fiestas de Sevilla (1671–1672) which he conserved and prefaced. Thus, although he was criticized at the time for ‘lingering over’ descriptions of the role of artists in ephemeral festivals and celebrations, it is argued here that Stirling can now be seen as an important nineteenth-century link between current art historical approaches and Early Modern mentalities of theatricality and performativity.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"189 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1621097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42282106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teatralidad y performatividad: perspectivas conceptuales-metodológicas para el análisis de las artes visuales y escénicas de los siglos XVI–XVIII*","authors":"Carmen González-Román","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1622323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1622323","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Teatralidad y performatividad son dos conceptos que podrían ampliar la perspectiva de análisis a la hora de abordar las manifestaciones artísticas de los siglos XVI–XVIII. El término ‘teatralidad’, como categoría estética o como constante estilística asociada a determinados períodos o manifestaciones artísticas, ha sido empleado con bastante frecuencia por los historiadores del arte en el análisis del arte barroco. ‘Performatividad’ es un concepto emergente en los estudios culturales europeos que cuenta aún con escaso desarrollo en el ámbito de la Historia del arte en el entorno hispánico y en los estudios sobre el arte de la Edad Moderna. Dicho concepto abre, no obstante, nuevas posibilidades tanto para el análisis estético de los objetos artísticos como para el estudio de los rituales, ceremonias, fiestas y representaciones teatrales. Estos dos conceptos favorecen un amplio abanico de posibilidades de análisis en torno a cualidades y características de determinados acontecimientos u objetos culturales que guardan relación con el teatro o con otras formas de ‘presentación’. Tales manifestaciones no necesariamente la entendemos relacionadas directa, unívoca o explícitamente con el teatro o la fiesta, sino también con todos aquellos procesos de hibridación que acontecen en los espacios intersticiales entre el arte y la vida.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"175 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1622323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42100250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectres and Spectacles of Disappearance: The Figure of the Doll in Argentina’s Memoryscapes","authors":"Jordana Blejmar","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1588549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1588549","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Scholars interested in post-dictatorship culture in Argentina have focused mainly on two modes of representing ‘disappearance’, namely the photographs of the victims exhibited in commemorations and the silhouettes that originated during the 1983 event called the siluetazo. In this article I focus on a third visual strategy of memory: the figure of the doll. I analyse photographs, paintings and performances which, during and after the 1976–1983 dictatorship, have used dolls to represent the nation’s unburied bodies. I present photographs, silhouettes and dolls as all being part of an aesthetic of the Doppelgänger, characterized by similar issues of replication and phantasmagoria. I look at dolls’ spectral quality and also at their role in performances that were considered by some to be controversial ‘spectacularizations’ of terror. I argue, however, that these works were never just provocative but played an important role in discussions about play, memory and visual culture in Argentina and beyond.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"127 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1588549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41341250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Punctures and Molecular Politics: Topographies of the Body in Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato (1979)","authors":"Vanessa Ceia","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1589747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1589747","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines Iván Zulueta’s topographical representations of heroin consumption in Arrebato (1979), a cult-classic of Spanish cinema and pivotal work of the Movida madrileña. In the film, the injection of heroin is coupled with an external, visual effect on characters’ bodies—represented through colour, make-up, clothing and characters’ physiological responses—establishing a bidirectional flow between their subjective, molecular experience with drugs and their outward, physical appearances. By visualizing the effects of an illicit drug, Zulueta creates a superficial, or epidermic, lexicon for otherwise invisible corporeal experiences induced by drug use. Furthermore, by materially breaching the body with a syringe, injecting themselves with drugs and molecularly altering their subjectivities and identities at whim, the characters in Arrebato question the epistemological barrier between interiority and exteriority and challenge and evade fixed delineations of the body and of identity as defined by social legislation of the time. As such, the punctured and porous bodies in Arrebato, like those in similar works by maldito artists of the Movida, can be read, topographically, as an affront to social order and established systems of (bio)power in post-Franco Spain.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1589747","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46160570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De América a Roma: producción artística para la beatificación del Arzobispo Mogrovejo","authors":"María Nieves Rupérez Almajano","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1591696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1591696","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract El cabildo y la ciudad de Lima no escatimaron medios para el proceso de canonización del arzobispo Mogrovejo. Gracias a ello el despliegue de recursos artísticos para dar a conocer su figura y su aportación a la evangelización del Nuevo Mundo fue enorme, alcanzando su momento de inflexión en los años inmediatos a la beatificación en 1679. Para las celebraciones festivas y la creación de imágenes, desde retratos hasta completas series narrativas grabadas, se recurrió a renombrados artífices, no tanto por razones devocionales, sino como parte de una política propagandística y diplomática ineludible. Sólo en un segundo momento algunos de esos tipos iconográficos se usaron con una finalidad cultual, como refleja su recepción en América y España. Con este artículo se pretende reunir y precisar esa rica producción, en parte olvidada.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"126 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1591696","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60130187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Identity in Small or Minority Nations: Three Recent Catalan Films","authors":"Dilys Jones, C. Perriam","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1589266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1589266","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article places three recent Catalan films in a framework of classificatory discussion of identity, change and small or ‘minority’ nationhood. It builds on previous work on Welsh and Basque film which proposes a system of classification designed to enhance the conceptualisation of links between film and identity in small or minority national cultures. That system uses three modal concepts: the Preserved, connected with patriarchy, rural landscape, collective rural identity and stereotypical representations; Reversal, connected with complexities and ambiguities of meaning as produced by representations of landscape or expressions of collective identity; and the postnational, connected to qualities of discordance, placelessness, and scepticism about the relevance or direction of collective history. Los últimos días (David and Álex Pastor, 2013), Segon origen (Carles Porta, 2015) and Estiu 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017) are analysed using the categorization in order to explore how crises and changes in individuals or communities link to wider processes of transition and regression. It draws on previous schematizations by Raymond Williams and Manuel Castells and places particular emphasis on nuancing the conceptualisation of the postnational in the small or minority cultural context.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"67 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1589266","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44691593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Im)mobility at the Movies: el paro, Property and Prosthesis in Álex de la Iglesia’s La chispa de la vida (2011)*","authors":"M. Marr","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1584499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1584499","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In contrast with the many luckless physical falls elsewhere in Álex de la Iglesia’s oeuvre, the protagonist’s macabre plunge onto a steel spike in La chispa de la vida (2011) is more than a cartoonish gag staged merely in the service of dark humour. The resultant form of immobility wrought upon the body of Roberto, an unemployed advertising executive, allegorically serves as the socio-economic conceit at the heart of the film, and (following Mitchell and Snyder’s theory of disability as ‘narrative prosthesis’) as an unlikely source of the film’s very motion as a screen story. At once contextualizing La chispa in relation to a long tradition of Spanish cine inmobiliario (cinema discursively engaged with immovable property), this essay will examine the film’s timely and unusual satirical take on Spain’s recent ladrillo bust, as well as its self-conscious reflections on media and popular culture’s narrative representations thereof: stories caught up, like the main character’s own body, in the machinations of inmobiliaria, much as La chispa itself is a screen story predicated on professional, financial and physical immobility.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"47 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1584499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49152309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La ética de la voz-Real y la autoamputación de la lengua en Tiempo de revancha","authors":"Martín Sorbille","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2019.1598713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2019.1598713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"21 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2019.1598713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46124170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sobre retratos de Vicente Carducho","authors":"Luis Ramón-Laca","doi":"10.1080/24741604.2018.1496701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2018.1496701","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Se estudian en este artículo tres retratos de Vicente Carducho: primero, el retrato de la colección Stirling Maxwell, Pollok House, Glasgow; segundo, el grabado de Pedro Perret conservado en la Real Biblioteca, Madrid; y, finalmente, el retrato vendido recientemente en Madrid, el cual perteneció anteriormente al Marqués de Torrecilla. Estos tres retratos se estudian en el contexto del renovado interés despertado en los últimos años por la obra de Carducho y a la luz de las ideas de este artista-teórico vertidas en sus Diálogos de la pintura, obra publicada en Madrid en 1633.","PeriodicalId":37212,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"309 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/24741604.2018.1496701","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44553841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}