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CRAI Library Of The Pavilion Of The Republic
The CRAI Library of the Pavilion of the Republic (Pavelló de la República ( ca)) is an archive and library focused on the Second Spanish Republic, the Spanish Civil War, exile from Spain during Francoist Spain and Spain's transition to democracy. The library is one branch of the umbrella library, the "Resource Center for Learning and Research Library" (CRAI) of the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, incorporating numerous branches dedicated to particular fields. The Pavilion library also has important materials on the Soviet Bloc and on the international political history of the twentieth history, particularly World War II. In 1996, the CRAI Pavilion Library incorporated the collections of the University and the Figueras Foundation. The library is housed in the Spanish Pavilion building, which was originally designed and built for the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937. The building was recreated in Barcelona in 1992. The CRAI Library of the Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Calder
Alexander "Sandy" Calder (; July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobile (sculpture), mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn't be broadcast to other people." Early life Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in 1898 in Lawnton, Pennsylvania. His birthdate remains a source of confusion. According to Calder's mother, Nanette (née Lederer), Calder was born on August 22, yet his birth certificate at Philadelphia City Hall, based on a hand-written ledger, stated July 22. When Calder's family learned of the birth certificate, they asserted with certainty that city officials had made a mistake. His mother was Jewish and of German descent and his father was Calvinist and of Scottish descent, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Sánchez Pérez
Alberto Sánchez Pérez (1895, Toledo, Spain–1962, Moscow) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. He fought with the Republican Fifth Regiment in the Spanish Civil War. His painting, ''Toros ibéricos'' is in the Museo Arte Público de Madrid. Sources Martin, Peter. Presentación de Alberto Sánchez Pérez, escultor (1895-1962). Corvina. Budapest, 1964. (Consultado en la Bibl.Tomás Navarro Tomás del CSIC (Madrid), en 2011) Chávarri Porpeta, Raúl. Mito y realidad de la Escuela de Vallecas. Ibérico Europea de Ediciones. Madrid, 1975. Azcoaga, Enrique. Alberto. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Dirección General del Patrimonio Artístico y Cultural, Madrid, 1977 Plaza Chillón, José Luis. "El largo y doloroso epílogo de un artista desterrado: el exilio de Alberto en la U.R.S.S. (1938-1962)". Patronato "Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres". Córdoba, 2005 Several authors, Catálogo de la exposición Forma, palabra y materia en la poética de Vallecas. Diputación de A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reaper (Miró)
''The Reaper'' ("El segador"), also known as ''Catalan peasant in revolt'' ("El campesino catalán en rebeldía" (es); "El pagès català en rebel·lia" (ca)) was a large mural created by Joan Miró in Paris in 1937 for the Second Spanish Republic, Spanish Republic’s pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Paris International Exhibition. One of Miró's largest works ( high), it was destroyed or lost in 1938, and only a few black and white photographs survive. Background Miró moved with his family to Paris in 1936 to escape the Spanish Civil War. Until 1937 Miró had maintained a mostly apolitical stance, but he had Republican sympathies, and the mural was intended as a protest against the violence wracking his home country. He had created a stamp and poster, ''Aidez l'Espagne'', earlier in 1937, which depicted a Catalonia, Catalan peasant wearing a traditional red hat (barretina) and shaking his fist. The Pavelló de la R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
