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The news media have demonstrated the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939.

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Instead of isolating artists such as Bunuel and Dali from the political contexts in which they produced their work, Mendelson studies the role these and other artists played in negotiating Spanish modernity and in conventional thinking about family and nation, rural and urban Spain, Republican and Fascist ideology. - Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of The Spanish Gypsy This is a major study that I would expect to become a classic. The Spanish documentary practices chosen for analysis are all related to exhibition culture in some way but also to ethnographic studies in Spain at the time, which in turn provide crucial information about attitudes toward Spain's relation to modernity and its 'usable past.' - Jo Labanyi, University of Southampton

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Jordana Mendelson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and co-editor of Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, forthcoming from Penn State Press.

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