Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation. Issue 2 (October 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mallart, Lucila
• Is Part Of: Cultural history. Volume 4:Issue 2(2015)
• Page Start: 113
• Page End: 135
• Publication Date: 2015-10
• Subjects: Civilization -- History -- Periodicals; 306.09
• DOI: 10.3366/cult.2015.0090
• Languages: German
• ISSNs: 2045-290X

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="de"> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of <italic>fin-de-siècle</italic> Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called 'imagined communities' come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.</p> </abstract>