The Prado
Spanish Culture and Leisure, 1819–1939
Seiten
2021
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07858-8 (ISBN)
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07858-8 (ISBN)
Explores the history of Spain’s most iconic art museum. Highlights the political history of the museum’s relation to the monarchy, the church, and the liberal nation state, as well as its role as an extension of Madrid’s social center, the Prado Promenade.
The Prado takes an unconventional look at Spain’s most iconic art museum. Focusing on the Prado as a space of urban leisure, Eugenia Afinoguénova highlights the political history of the museum’s relation to the monarchy, the church, and the liberal nation-state, as well as its role as an extension of Madrid’s social center, the Prado Promenade.
Rather than assume that visitors agreed about how to interpret the museum, Afinoguénova approaches the history of the Prado as a debate about culture and leisure. Just like those crossing the museum’s threshold, who did not always trace a firm line between what they could see or do inside the building and outside on the Paseo del Prado, the participants in this debate—journalists, politicians, museum directors, art critics—considered museum-going to be part of a broader discussion concerning citizenship and voting rights, the rise of Madrid to the status of a modern capital, and the growing gap between town and country.
Based on extensive archival research on the museum’s displays and policies as well as the attitudes of visitors and city-dwellers, The Prado unfolds the museum’s many political and propagandistic roles and examines its complicated history as a monument to the tension between culture and leisure. Art historians and scholars of museum studies and visual and leisure culture will find this foundational study of the Prado invaluable.
The Prado takes an unconventional look at Spain’s most iconic art museum. Focusing on the Prado as a space of urban leisure, Eugenia Afinoguénova highlights the political history of the museum’s relation to the monarchy, the church, and the liberal nation-state, as well as its role as an extension of Madrid’s social center, the Prado Promenade.
Rather than assume that visitors agreed about how to interpret the museum, Afinoguénova approaches the history of the Prado as a debate about culture and leisure. Just like those crossing the museum’s threshold, who did not always trace a firm line between what they could see or do inside the building and outside on the Paseo del Prado, the participants in this debate—journalists, politicians, museum directors, art critics—considered museum-going to be part of a broader discussion concerning citizenship and voting rights, the rise of Madrid to the status of a modern capital, and the growing gap between town and country.
Based on extensive archival research on the museum’s displays and policies as well as the attitudes of visitors and city-dwellers, The Prado unfolds the museum’s many political and propagandistic roles and examines its complicated history as a monument to the tension between culture and leisure. Art historians and scholars of museum studies and visual and leisure culture will find this foundational study of the Prado invaluable.
Eugenia Afinoguénova is Professor of Spanish and Spanish Culture at Marquette University. She is the co-editor of Spain Is (Still) Different: Tourism and Discourse in Spanish Identity and the author of El idiota superviviente: Artes y letras españolas frente a la “muerte del hombre,” 1969–1990.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between the Prado and the Pradera
1A Royal Public Institution, 1819–1833
2Inscribing Monarchy into the New Regime, 1833–1868
3Museum and Revolution, 1868–1874
4Becoming National, 1874–1902
5The Era of the Masses, 1902–1936
Epilogue: “More Important for Spain than the Republic and the Monarchy Combined”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 6 Maps; 50 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | University Park |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 748 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
Reiseführer ► Europa ► Spanien | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-271-07858-8 / 0271078588 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-07858-8 / 9780271078588 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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