Cultura de la República. Revista de Análisis Crítico (CRRAC)

Design during the Second Republic. The brief journey of the avant-garde towards the everyday

2024-10-22T12:05:09+02:00

Second Spanish Republic was a period spanning from 1931 to 1939 during which various reforms were proposed to enhance the country's economic, political, and social structures. The design sector thrived in this environment, enabling the development and application of avant-garde theories. A generation of young designers emerged in this culturally rich landscape, where their bold visual proposals were seamlessly integrated across all domains of visual language. This article examines key aspects of their contributions in areas such as advertising posters, editorial design, photography, and packaging, among others. The victory of the national troops in 1939 brought the Second Republic to a close, as well as the work of that generation of designers. This article seeks to underscore the innovative originality of their work regarding color, typography, and composition, positioning them as vital references for contemporary designers. Additionally, it serves as a tribute to their memory, ensuring they do not fade into obscurity.

Women, object and subject of visual culture during the spanish second republic

2024-10-17T21:11:43+02:00

The aim of this article is to underline that women became main characters of visual culture between 1931 and 1936. Their bodies kept on being a sexualized object in pictures and movies, but at the same time many women painters and photographers emerged who broke through their invisible ceiling to become authors of modernity images. We have structured its contents in a theoretical introduction and two main parts, dedicated respectively to each of these approaches. Using sociological, reception and gender perspectives, we list some of the most relevant (and still little known) examples and draw conclusions such as the dialogue identity-globalilty was decisive in the construction of modern narratives in Spain, or that mass media played a major role in that urban and cosmopolitan world prior to our Civil War.

La nación española a través de la gran pantalla (1930-1939)

2024-11-29T19:19:42+01:00

El siguiente trabajo va a realizar una sistematización y revisión bibliográfica al respecto de la vinculación entre el cine de los años treinta, la II República y la Nación española. El cine de los años treinta fue una herramienta de difusión social que trató de asentar y difundir unos valores específicos vinculados a lo que significaba la “españolidad”. En este marco, este trabajo recoge cuáles eran los principales elementos y su trascendencia combinando el análisis bibliográfico con el filmográfico. Acudiendo a la fuente primaria se ha conseguido constatar la bibliografía estudiada y aportar valor al texto, combinando la revisión de textos con el análisis del sistema de discursos.

About the creative work of the republican Galdós (1907-1918): in the light of his time and the current

2024-11-06T15:04:02+01:00

The latest works of Benito Pérez Galdós present us with an author who continues to search for new methods and ways to account for the Spanish reality that surrounds him. Far from stagnating in the traditional realism where critics placed him, the author investigates new expressive forms that will affect both his novels and his theater. The following article analyzes these features and updates Galdós's position in relation to many of the problems of today's Spain that were already announced and denounced in these works.

La actualización del organicismo en Perito en lunas

2024-10-29T11:55:01+01:00

El objeto principal de este trabajo es tratar de analizar el inconsciente ideológico de Miguel Hernández en la escritura de Perito en lunas. Se llamará la atención sobre la manera en que para el poeta los objetos no son sino una representación de Dios en la Tierra; representación mediante la cual se propone una vuelta a la visión barroca del mundo. La interpretación que este artículo propone es que nos encontramos ante una actualización de lo que en las próximas páginas vamos a denominar organicismo. Para ello, se realizará una explicación de la matriz ideológica mencionada y cómo se desarrolla su actualización en el S. XX a propósito del fascismo, se realizará un análisis de textos teóricos de Miguel Hernández y Ramón Sijé, así como de composiciones de Perito en lunas.

Temas y paratextos: la conexión entre Concha Méndez y Consuelo Berges a través de Canciones de mar y tierra (1930) y Escalas (1930)

2024-11-29T19:00:14+01:00

This article focuses on the friendship between Concha Méndez and Consuelo Berges, exploring it through a thematic and paratextual analysis of two of their works: Canciones de mar y tierra (1930) and Escalas (1930), respectively. Both works constitute an important testimony that allows us to explore and delve deeper into the transnational network of collaboration between women intellectuals created at the beginning of the 20th century. In this network woven by women, which acted as a bridge between the two coasts of the Atlantic, sisterhood acquired capital importance, playing a key role in achieving the professionalisation they so longed for and which was so necessary for them.

Editorial

2022-12-12T12:31:04+01:00

Presentation of the sixth number of Cultura de la República. Revista de Análisis Crítico

José Ramón Arana y las revistas del exilio: construcción de identidades y resistencia cultural en México

2024-10-16T16:48:45+02:00

This article addresses the role of José Ramón Arana in the context of the Spanish republican exile in Mexico, highlighting his relevance in the construction of national and regional identities through cultural projects such as the magazines Aragón and Las Españas. Structured in six sections, the text examines how the tensions prior to 1939, especially the conflicting conceptions of the nation, were transferred to the exile and forced the republicans to redefine their identity. It employs a historical-cultural and discursive analysis focused on the study of these publications as vehicles for the construction or reconstruction of identity. The main contribution of the article lies in situating Arana as a key actor in the cultural resistance of exile, which broadens the understanding of the republican diaspora. The conclusions highlight the relevance of exiled publications as vehicles of cohesion and critical reflection on Spain, its culture and its future.

To the left of the future

2024-10-17T20:28:56+02:00

Forgotten by the official history of literature and art, New Romanticism was a cultural movement, promoted by the newly born extreme republican left wing, which tried to promote a social concept of the Avant-garde, in contrast to the prevailing aestheticism, aseptic and far from any historical conflict or social commitment. It had its peak in the second half of the 20s of the last century. This article analyzes, in its first part, its class components, influences and history, through the different publications and editorial projects that it developed. The second part addresses the decomposition of the group, originally very compact, into various political tendencies, once the Second Republic was proclaimed.

Cultura libertaria, poética republicana

2024-11-28T21:46:38+01:00

Spanish republicanism and anarchism shared a large part of their values, spaces and quite a few actions from the beginning of the sexenio democrático until the end of the Second Republic. However, they have almost always been represented as totally separate and opposing movements. This article therefore deals with several key moments of collaboration and mutual influence between the two tendencies—Pi i Margall's federalist project, the Montjuïc trials, blasquism, the Tragic Week, Lerrouxism and the proclamation of the Second Republic. Based on a theoretical framework that questions the irrationalist paradigm of Spanish historiography on the anarchist movement, the article puts forward the hypothesis that anarchist culture was a determining factor in the survival of republican values between 1874 and 1931. To this end, it connects recent publications on the anarchist and republican movements with primary sources from the period.

Créditos número 8

2024-12-27T11:56:32+01:00

Información editorial del número 8 de CRRAC

Índice

2024-12-27T13:38:23+01:00

Índice de contenidos del número 8 de CRRAC

Reseña: Vida de Fermín Galán. Biografía política

2024-12-21T18:29:40+01:00

Reseña del libro editado por Víctor Fuentes en Stockcero titulado Vida de Fermín Galán. Biografía política y cuyos autores son Joaquín Arderíus y José Díaz Fernández

Reseña: José Antonio Llera. Una danza con los pies atados

2024-12-27T11:33:23+01:00

Reseña de la novela escrita por José Antonio Llera y titulada Una danza con los pies atados

Reseña: Larrabide. La censura y Miguel Hernández

2024-12-27T11:49:23+01:00

Reseña del libro escrito por Aitor L. Larrabide y Juan José Sánchez Balaguer, cuyo título es La censura y Miguel Hernández

Reseña: Antonio Orihuela. Las sin amo

2024-12-27T11:41:25+01:00

Reseña del libro de Antonio Orihuela titulado Las sin amo. Escritoras olvidadas y silenciadas de los años treinta