Spanish Identities in America through Art and Architecture. Stages between Two Centuries (1890-1930) and Extensions in Time

Abstract

This study aims to reflect some fundamental guidelines with regard to the development of the arts of Spanish minted in contemporary America, analyzing in some cases historiographical fortune of certain themes, and taking into account both Spanish and American productions. We structure the text through a succession of foundational stages in which relevant exchanges between Spain and America were produced, consolidating a stable and fruitful presence of Spanish identity in that continent, with special attention to the first third of the twentieth century. So, focus interest in architectural themes such as neo-arab and neocolonial, hispanism and its presence in the arts (given here painting, sculpture and graphics), culminating, as an epilogue, with a valuation of successive periods, encompassing the years of civil war, the spanish emigration in America, institutional action from Franco’s Spain, reaching Fifth Centenary celebrations in 1992 and his reminiscences, until today.