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Author Vater, Katie J., author

Title Between market and myth : the Spanish artist novel in the post-transition, 1992-2014 / Katie J. Vater
Published Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Campos ibericos
Contents The weight of fame: memory in two contemporary Künstlerromane by Ángeles Caso and Julio Llamazares -- The postfeminist turn in the artist novel by women: the case of Almudena Grandes, Clara Usón, and Nieves Herrero -- The art historian as neoliberal subject in Lourdes Ortiz's Las manos de Velázquez and Paloma Díaz-Mas's El sueño de Venecia -- Affiliation anxiety: avant-garde identity at dOCUMENTA(13) in Enrique Vila-Matas's Kasselno invita la lógic -- Conclusion
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Creative economy, Künstlerroman, Artist novel, Cultura de la Transición, Cultural labor, Art-Commerce Relation, novel, post-transition, Francisco Franco, financial crisis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Spanish fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Spanish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Künstlerromane, Spanish -- History and criticism
Artists in literature.
Art in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Künstlerromane, Spanish
Art in literature
Artists in literature
Spanish fiction
Kunst
Literatur
Künstlerroman
Künstler Motiv
Kunsthistoriker
Spanisch
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781684482252
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