JOSEP RENAU y THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN REPUBLICAN SPAIN, 1931

At once pragmatic and utopian, the Spanish artist, critic and political activist Josep Renau engaged in multiple ways in the volatil e cultural conflicts of interwar Europe, which converged on Spain in the Second Republic's battle to modernise both politics and soc iety (1931-1939). Renau used his idiosyncratic artwork and agit-prop, inspired by the Constructivists and the German avant-garde, to critique the timidity of the Republic's first democratising reforms. To envision an alternative, he launched arts organisations and magazin...[Read more]