URBAN SPACE, IDENTITY AND POSTMODERNITY IN 1980S SPAIN

During the 1980s, the urban youth movement known as la movida transformed the Spanish cultural landscape, particularly in the countr y's capital, Madrid. After a four-decade long dictatorship, artists and thinkers sought to make the most of their newly found freedo ms. The vibrancy, optimism and aesthetic heterogeneity of the period are best captured in contemporary ephemera - in the fanzines an d magazines that provided movida participants with an immediate and largely unmediated outlet for their creative experiments. Among them, mon...[Read more]