Convulsive Memory: The Spanish Civil War and Post-Franco Spain

  • Inez Hedges
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Part of the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies book series (PMMS)

Abstract

In 1937 Pablo Picasso painted his large black and white canvas, “Guernica,” after the bombing of this Basque village by Italian and German warplanes on April 26 of that year. Commissioned by the as-yet undefeated Spanish republican government for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life (“Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne”), this painting has gained worldwide renown as a representation of the suffering inflicted upon civilian populations in modern warfare.

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Nervous Breakdown Black Humor Surrealist Movement Hollywood Film Cultural Scene 
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© Inez Kathleen Hedges 2015

Authors and Affiliations

  • Inez Hedges
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  1. 1.Northeastern UniversityUSA

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