WHEN SPAIN FASCINATED AMERICA

Pradoxically, the height of Spain's cultural influence in the USA took place shortly after the brief 1898 Spanish-American War/ spec ifically, between the 1909 and 1925 Zuloaga exhibitions, which marked the summit of the so-called Spanish craze/ a period in which m any aspects of the hispanic civilisation became fashionable in the USA. It is no exaggeration to cliam that, during those years, the Spanish culture fascinated the American public.