This richly illustrated volume brings together fresh insights into the changing urban space of Barcelona from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. The collection focuses primarily on the complicated relationship between environment, identity, and performance as they were seen, explored, and portrayed by countercultural and avant-garde artists and communities from the 1960s to today. Drawing crucial links between theory and practice, aesthetics and environment—and paying particular attention to the role of the avant-garde in challenging and disrupting dominant art forms and uses of urban space—Barcelona presents a variety of perspectives and approaches, drawing on art history, cultural geography, performance studies, and institutional critique.
224 pages | 8 color plates, 44 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2012
Iberian and Latin American Studies
History: European History
Reviews
Table of Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: ‘Butterflying Barcelona’
Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulfield
Part I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia
1. Breaking Boundaries: A Journey through the Catalan Avant-Garde
Carlota Caulfield
2. On the Starfish Road: Surrealism and the Paris–Barcelona Connection
Stephen Forcer
3. The Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot
P. Louise Johnson
4. Cafè Central: a groundbreaking independent publishing house in Barcelona. Interview with Antoni Clapés
Carlota Caulfield
Part II: Butterflying Barcelona: The Environment
5. The Case for Obsolescence: Thinking Time and Space in Joaquim Jordà’s Numax presenta
Maria Paz Balibrea
6. Whose Vanguardist City? The Barcelona Urban Model as Seen from the Periphery in José Luis Guérin’s En construcción
Natalia Nuñez
7. The Raval on Stage: Limits and Borders in Juan Mayorga’s Hamelin
Elisenda Marcer
8. Translating the Enigma: Temporality and Subjectivity in Ventura Pons’s Barcelona: un mapa
Josep-Anton Fernàndez
9. Empowerment by Visualization: Experiences from Barcelona
Lidewij Tummers
Part III: Performing Barcelona
10. Tracing the City through the URBS Project
Helena Buffery and Àngels Margarit
11. Performing Barcelona: Cultural Tourism, Geography and Identity
Maria M. Delgado
12. Absent Bodies and Objects
Cariad Astles
13. A Broken Mirror? Global-Local Images of Barcelona
Anna Wilson
14. Talking about Visual Poetry: Interviews with J. M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals
Carlota Caulfield et al.
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: ‘Butterflying Barcelona’
Helena Buffery and Carlota Caulfield
Part I: Avant-Garde Histories and Catalonia
1. Breaking Boundaries: A Journey through the Catalan Avant-Garde
Carlota Caulfield
2. On the Starfish Road: Surrealism and the Paris–Barcelona Connection
Stephen Forcer
3. The Lyrical Taboos of Guillem Viladot
P. Louise Johnson
4. Cafè Central: a groundbreaking independent publishing house in Barcelona. Interview with Antoni Clapés
Carlota Caulfield
Part II: Butterflying Barcelona: The Environment
5. The Case for Obsolescence: Thinking Time and Space in Joaquim Jordà’s Numax presenta
Maria Paz Balibrea
6. Whose Vanguardist City? The Barcelona Urban Model as Seen from the Periphery in José Luis Guérin’s En construcción
Natalia Nuñez
7. The Raval on Stage: Limits and Borders in Juan Mayorga’s Hamelin
Elisenda Marcer
8. Translating the Enigma: Temporality and Subjectivity in Ventura Pons’s Barcelona: un mapa
Josep-Anton Fernàndez
9. Empowerment by Visualization: Experiences from Barcelona
Lidewij Tummers
Part III: Performing Barcelona
10. Tracing the City through the URBS Project
Helena Buffery and Àngels Margarit
11. Performing Barcelona: Cultural Tourism, Geography and Identity
Maria M. Delgado
12. Absent Bodies and Objects
Cariad Astles
13. A Broken Mirror? Global-Local Images of Barcelona
Anna Wilson
14. Talking about Visual Poetry: Interviews with J. M. Calleja, Gustavo Vega and Xavier Canals
Carlota Caulfield et al.
Works Cited
Index