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Buñuel’S Impure Modernism (1929-1950), Sebastiaan Faber
Buñuel’S Impure Modernism (1929-1950), Sebastiaan Faber
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Agustín Sánchez Vidal has argued that Los olvidados almost perfectly blends the three principal strands of Buñuel’s cinematic career: modernism, commercialism, and a politically committed (documentary) realism. My argument here will be double. First, that this three-way mix can be traced back to the 1930s; and second, that Buñuel’s work invites us to reconsider not only the significance of Spanish cultural production and the Spanish Civil War in the history of modernism, but more generally the importance for its development of the interaction and integration of aesthetics (the identification of cultural value with formal innovation and artistic integrity), politics (the …
Review: Electric Salome, Loie Fuller's Performance Of Modernism, Tim Scholl
Review: Electric Salome, Loie Fuller's Performance Of Modernism, Tim Scholl
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