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Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist

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von: Carles Fontserè
15,99 €
Verlag:	Pensódromo 21
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	27.12.2016
ISBN/EAN:	9788494552267
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	580

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The political poster explosion of July 1936 has been highly acclaimed by critics and scholars worldwide. One of the best-known posters of the time, &quote;Freedom!&quote; - which has acquired near cult status - shows a peasant holding a sickle aloft, set against the anarchist red-and-black flag. The artist, Carles Fontsere, was just twenty years old when he joined the revolution along with fellow artists and comrades-in-arms, Josep Aluma, Helios Gomez, Antoni Clave and many others who appear in this account. In his outstanding memoirs, which are more artistic, political and collective than intimate, Fontser recounts his upbringing in a petit bourgeois family with Carlist leanings along with his experience in the Barcelona Requet His thirst for reading led him to the writings of Tolstoy, which inspired his nascent libertarian ideals culminating in his road-to-Damascus transformation during the heady events of the Nationalist military uprising in Barcelona. Fontser played a key role in the founding of the Professional Drawing Union in 1936 and went on to draw posters for the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), among other political parties. He served with the International Brigades and, paradoxically, survived several close brushes with death from his own side. His story culminates with the Republican retreat from Barcelona and his escape over the Pyrenees, together with Catalan president Llus Companys and his cabinet, into exile in France. Fontser'sMemoirsof a Spanish Civil War Artist masterfully combines autobiography and history through the eyes of one of the 20th century's foremost Catalan graphic artists, known worldwide for his Republican propaganda posters. The book of Carles Fontser's memoirs is not only an excellent translation from Catalan to English, but one central to the history of Catalonia.