In the shadow of dictatorship : creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art / edited by Clarisse Fava-Piz and Amanda W. Dotseth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dotseth, Amanda W., editor.

Fava-Piz, Clarisse, editor.

Meadows Museum, host institution, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museo de Arte Abstracto Español--History.

Museo de Arte Abstracto Español.

Art, Abstract--Spain--Exhibitions.

Art, Abstract.

Spain.

Genre:

History.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

189 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

illustration.

Other Title:

Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art

Place of Publication:

Dallas : Meadows Museum, SMU, 2023.

Summary:

During the mid-twentieth century, Spanish abstract artists experienced success abroad yet struggled for recognition at home. In 1966, in an effort to promote Spanish abstraction within Spain, the artist and collector Fernando Zobel (1924-1984) established the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español. He housed his modern collection within the historic Hanging Houses of Cuenca, a town southeast of Madrid that soon became a haven for Spanish artists. Zobel's museum was the first institution in Spain dedicated exclusively to abstract art as well as the country's first artists' museum. The scholarly essays in this richly illustrated volume elucidate the history of this pioneering museum against the cultural and political backdrop of the last decade of the Franco dictatorship. Forty-two outstanding paintings and sculptures by artists such as Eduardo Chillida, Antonio Saura, and Antoni Tapies are reproduced in the catalogue section, accompanied by essays that situate each artwork within the context of the artist's career. In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art represents one of the first major publications in English dedicated to midcentury Spanish abstract art.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, February 26-June 18, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780998093079

0998093076

OCLC:

1535870074