The Monument of Tomorrow : Creative Conservation and the Spanish War.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caballero Vázquez, Miguel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National monuments--History.

Cultural property--Protection--History.

Art and state--History.

Art--Political aspects.

National monuments--Spain--History--20th century.

National monuments.

Cultural property--Protection--Spain--History--20th century.

Cultural property.

Art and state--Spain--History--20th century.

Art and state.

Art--Political aspects--Spain.

Art.

Spain.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Art and the War.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Rupture, iconoclasm, and tabula rasa are concepts commonly used to describe the approach to cultural heritage associated with the avant-garde and revolutionary politics during the early twentieth century. Highlighting artists and radical intellectuals who worked to protect public monuments in 1910-1950s Spain, The Monument of Tomorrow challenges the persistent narrative, imposed by Francoism, of an iconoclastic Second Republic in Spain. Author Miguel Caballero draws on a wide range of sources to examine how artists, architects, writers, and activists transformed monument and heritage conservation into a progressive, experimental cause in their fight against fascism. During the Spanish War, with its devastating air raids, these individuals were motivated by the "defense of culture" to become determined conservationists. Caballero's research incorporates surviving monuments, architectural plans, propaganda posters, and literary works, including novels, plays, and poetry. The war became a laboratory for experiments in conserving and redefining monuments and national heritage. Modernist-style protective structures, for example, were built atop Madrid's historic monuments, including statues of Cybele, Neptune, and Phillip III in Plaza Mayor. Such innovations later influenced strategies for safeguarding monuments during the Second World War. This history, Caballero argues, makes the Spanish War pivotal to development of the concept of World Heritage. Ultimately, The Monument of Tomorrow demonstrates that heritage conservation does not have to be politically conservative. Those interested in anti-fascism, art history, modern architecture, modernism, cultural heritage, conservation and preservation, Iberian studies, and war studies should find valuable insights in this innovative, original work.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes to Introduction

Chapter 1: Avant-Garde Conservation

Notes to Chapter 1

Chapter 2: Reactionary Conservation

Notes to Chapter 2

Chaptter 3: Burying Monuments

Notes to Chapter 3

Chapter 4: Burning Monuments

Notes to Chapter 4

Chapter 5: The Return to Stone

Notes to Chapter 5

Chapter 6: : Exile and Conservation

Notes to Chapter 6

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-271-09945-3

0-271-09944-5

OCLC:

1524995629