Between Market and Myth

The Spanish Artist Novel in the Post-Transition, 1992-2014

Katie J. Vater (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2020
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-221-4 (ISBN)

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In post-Franco Spain the artist novel began to proliferate for the first time in a century, but these novels have received little critical attention. This book studies a selection of authors whose largely realist novels portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists' willing recruitment by market forces or political influence.

In its early transition to democracy following Franco’s death in 1975, Spain rapidly embraced neoliberal practices and policies, some of which directly impacted cultural production. In a few short years, the country commercialized its art and literary markets, investing in “cultural tourism” as a tool for economic growth and urban renewal. The artist novel began to proliferate for the first time in a century, but these novels—about artists and art historians—have received little critical attention beyond the descriptive. In Between Market and Myth, Vater studies select authors—Julio Llamazares, Ángeles Caso, Clara Usón, Almudena Grandes, Nieves Herrero, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Lourdes Ortiz, and Enrique Vila-Matas—whose largely realist novels portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists’ willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence. Today, in an era of rising globalization, the artist novel proves ideal for examining authors' ambivalent notions of creative practice when political patronage and private sector investment complicate belief in artistic autonomy.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

KATIE J. VATER is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her published research centers on inter-art dialogues and ekphrasis, in addition to the artist novel and representations of cultural labor. Her current research examines neoliberalism’s relationship to literature in Spain, especially after the 2008 financial crisis.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1          The Weight of Fame: Memory in Two Contemporary Künstlerromane by Ángeles Caso and Julio Llamazares

2          The Postfeminist Turn in the Artist Novel by Women: The Case of Almudena Grandes, Clara Usón, and Nieves Herrero

3          The Art Historian as Neoliberal Subject in Lourdes Ortiz’s Las manos de Velázquez and Paloma Díaz-Mas’s El sueño de Venecia

4          Affiliation Anxiety: Avant-Garde Identity at dOCUMENTA(13) in Enrique Vila-Matas’s Kassel no invita la lógica

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Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	None
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	3 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68448-221-6 / 1684482216
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-221-4 / 9781684482214
Zustand	Neuware