Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929-1939

by Jordana Mendelson

The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939--a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, and Franco's rise to power and, on the other, by a surge in the production of documentaries of various types, from films and photographs to international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271024747
• ISBN13: 9780271024745
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 9.7"