«Un presente deliberadamente vuelto hacia el pasado». Crítica de arte y politización del tiempo en el exilio republicano español en México

[EN] During the Spanish Exile in Mexico, art criticism was a crucial piece of the Republican cultural policy. Through these texts, published in cultural journals, authors attempted to condemn Francisco Franco’s regime, while legitimizing themselves as the true representants of Hispanic cultural lega...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Rioja Herrero, Adrián
Format: other
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/385768
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/385768
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Spanish Republican Exile
Art Criticism
Spanish Contemporary Art
Cultural Policy
Historiography
Exilio republicano español
Crítica de arte
Arte español contemporáneo
Política cultural
Historiografía
Contemporary art
Religious art
Cultural policy
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Summary:[EN] During the Spanish Exile in Mexico, art criticism was a crucial piece of the Republican cultural policy. Through these texts, published in cultural journals, authors attempted to condemn Francisco Franco’s regime, while legitimizing themselves as the true representants of Hispanic cultural legacy. Among the diverse strategies developed with this aim, the politicization of time and the contestation of linear history are key. This contribution deals with three strategies that underscore exile’s fracture of the spatio-temporal continuum in art criticism. We study three texts published in Mexico at the end of the 1940s by Margarita Nelken, Juan Larrea, and Daniel Tapia. These different approaches to the past, the present, and the future, exceed a monolithic concept of time, and they showcase diasporic fragmentation.