After the 2nd Republic: Networks and Exchanges in Spanish Art after 1931

The project After the 2nd Republic: Networks and Exchanges in Spanish Art after 1931 proposes investigating the developments in the arts and analysing the art-historiography in Spain. Its period of investigation includes the 2nd Republic and covers the fifty following years of Spanish history, including the Republican period, the Civil War, the Francoism and the first years of the democratic Transition.

The project focuses on networks and creative, social and political structures that encouraged multiple contacts on the national and the international level, which have not received the necessary academic attention, yet. These networks and exchanges promoted the circulation of artists, works, ideas and theories as well as contacts between artists, intellectuals and different disciplines that determined and shaped the new directions in the Spanish arts. After the 2nd Republic: Networks and Exchanges in Spanish Art after 1931 considers thereby the recuperation of the creative memory that starts with  the era of the 2nd Republic.

This venture is a follow-up of a research project that studied the arts and artists inside and outside Franco’s dictatorship (MICINN, HAR2008-00744). Using an interdisciplinarily methodology and a global perspective, it analyses the role this heritage played in the depicted artistic/intellectual networks and contexts.  Moreover, it studies how it developed through exchanges and amalgated with new influences in the various internationalization processes.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PROJECT (1931-1981)
I. Art and Republic
II. Art and War
III: Art and Exile
IV. Art and Francaism
V. Art and Democratic Transition