Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde by Silvina Gesser

Author:Silvina Gesser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2015-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

I IN SEARCH OF A MODERN SPANISH IDENTITY

Rafael Alberti’s artistic trajectory during the early 1920s had proved the success of his andalucismo popularista. His leadership in the 1927 commemoration of Góngora confirmed his role as an eccentric avant-gardist. However, in 1928–1929, when Alberti became involved in a late support for the Republican project, this political awakening led him on a frenetic search for a more international aestheticism which he found in new role models — the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel, the British poet and artist William Blake and the French writer Charles Baudelaire. By 1933, the newly assumed internationalist position led him to embrace the worldwide struggle against fascism and support the Soviet project as a liberating and modernizing model for Spain. Yet, Alberti retained the highbrow and popular Spanish literary tradition as a major source of inspiration both in his oeuvre and in his novel presentation of self. These tendencies that co-existed uneasily in his work, and the construction of his public persona shed further light on the tensions between essentialist understandings of Spain and Spanishness and the idea of modernity.

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