Women, Religion, and Culture in Spain and Spanish America 1900-2000
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Women, Religion, and Culture in Spain and Spanish America 1900-2000
This network will conceive, develop, and explore a new set of questions about how women’s cultural production in Spain and Spanish America is intertwined with changes in the role of religion and spirituality in the 20th and 21st centuries. As a starting point it will be guided by the following, preliminary questions: How have Latin… Read more
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Coronavirus: How Artists in the Spanish-speaking World Turn to Religious Imagery to Help Cope in a Crisis
Part of the discussions that have been ongoing within our network touch on the unstable borders between religion and art. Within the metamorphoses of religion that we have observed across the 20th and 21st centuries, these borders have been crossed many times. Sometimes people alight on the side of art. In these situations, art is… Read more
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Remedios Varo and the Creation Tapestry
Roberta Quance In 1876 a large eleventh-century embroidery known popularly as the Creation Tapestry (Brodat de la Creació) was discovered at the Girona Cathedral.[i] Although its function was not always understood, it was immediately celebrated as a masterpiece of Romanesque art and exhibited twice before the Spanish Civil War. A new book devoted to it… Read more
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