Tag Archives: avant garde

Fashion and the Fine Arts in Carmen de Burgos’ Avant-garde Novel, La mujer fantástica

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

I’m going to start the new year with a post on my most recent article, “Fashion, Ekphrasis, and the Avant-Garde Novel: Carmen de Burgos’ La mujer fantástica (1924)”, which was published in the open-access journal Ciberletras in December 2017. I … Continue reading →

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Illustrating Spain’s Silver Age of Literature: Carmen de Burgos, Ramon, and “Bon”

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

I’ve been working for several months now on an article on Carmen de Burgos’s 1924 novel La mujer fantástica (The Amazing/Fantastic Woman), and my research has been focused a lot on European art history and the diverse visual imagery that … Continue reading →

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Women and the Avant-garde: Maruja Mallo’s “Verbenas” (Carnivals)

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Lately I’ve been returning to the art and literature of the Spanish Avant-garde – the time period that sparked my interest in studying Spanish literary, art, and cultural history more in depth (roughly 1917-1930s). Since I received my copy of … Continue reading →

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Painting the Spanish Civil War

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

(For more information, see my more recent post with details on teaching Guernica in conjunction with Vicente Aleixandre’s poem “Oda a los niños de Madrid muertos por la metralla”, Dec. 2015). In my (Spanish) Introduction to Textual Analysis course, my … Continue reading →

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