La cerimònia dels Jocs Florals i la “glorificació” dels poetes de la Catalunya del passat: el Parc de la Ciutadella i el “Parc del Renaixement”
In 1908, the poet and publisher Francesc Matheu proposed the permanent public "glorification" of a group of Catalan poets he considered symbols of Catalonia’s 19th-century literary renaissance, through the installation of a series of monumental busts in Barcelona’s Ciutadella Park, continu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10256/25875 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10256/25875 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Jocs florals -- Catalunya Floral games -- Catalonia Aribau, Bonaventura Carles, 1798-1862 Nacionalisme -- Catalunya Regionalisme Regionalism Renaixença Parc de la Ciutadella (Barcelona, Catalunya) Parc de la Ciutadella (Barcelona, Catalonia) |
| Sumario: | In 1908, the poet and publisher Francesc Matheu proposed the permanent public "glorification" of a group of Catalan poets he considered symbols of Catalonia’s 19th-century literary renaissance, through the installation of a series of monumental busts in Barcelona’s Ciutadella Park, continuing thereby the initiative to erect there a monument to Bonaventura Carles Aribau in 1884. The proposal resulted in the unveiling of six busts between 1908 and 1913 with the aim to transform a space that had been a symbol of the military repression of the city into a site of memory for the movement known as Renaixença resorting to the symbolic capital of the Jocs Florals as a pacifying and "civilising" device. This article aims to analyse the controversies triggered by Matheu’s proposal and the forcefulness with which it was questioned by the different political and cultural actors in the context of the Solidaritat Catalana movement, the political campaign that would culminate in the constitution of the Mancomunitat de Catalunya in 1914, and the construction of the "ideal Barcelona" as the capital of the imagined "Catalunya-Ciutat" |
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