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Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, work presented in this volume explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design (fashion, architecture), hybrid texts (visual poetry, surrealist pocket museums, poetic photo-texts), and text and im...
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Catalan Nationalism offers a fresh socio-political analysis of Catalan nationalism during the Franco regime (1939-1975) and the Spanish transition to democracy.
Catalonia's leading contemporary visual artist reflects on his life and times
In 1990, or thereabouts, the then promoters and members of the board of trustees of the Fundació Xavier Nogués, Joan Ainaud de Lasarte, Raimon Noguera de Guzmán, Josep Pedreira and Ramon Gonzalez (now sadly de- ceased), together with the patrons August Testor, Oriol Bohigas and Jordi Curós, proposed, as a founding act, the publication of a book dedicated to the life and work of Xavier Nogués. The project was given the go ahead, and the then presi- dent, Mr Ainaud, wrote the foreword to the book. However, it was subsequently put on hold until a later date, despite everyone’s best efforts. Now we are fortunate enough to be able to revive the project and, by way of a tribute, we would like to put on record the interest the above individuals showed in the publication of the book you are now holding. We would also like to thank Joaquim Horta for the painstaking care taken with the initial project and the new patrons who have worked on the current one.
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L'octubre de 2008, el Departament de Cultura i Patrimoni del Consell de Mallorca, aleshores dirigit per la consellera Joana Lluïsa Mascaró, va promoure unes jornades d'estudi dedicades a l'intel·lectual i polític Joan Estelrich i Artigues (Felanitx 1896-París 1958). Aquestes jornades d'estudi, organitzades des de la Direcció Insular de Cultura de l'esmentat departament, es dugueren a terme entre el 17 i el 18 d'octubre, a Palma, al Centre Cultural la Misericòrdia i a la Sala de Plens del Consell de Mallorca, i, posteriorment, el 24 d'octubre, a Felanitx, mitjançant una taula rodona al centre cultural de la vila natal de l'escriptor.