Baroque Spain’ As Metaphor. Hispanidad , Europeanism and Cold War Anti-Communism in Francoist Spain

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ID12718622
AuthorsJohannes Grossmann
Year2014
Volume91
Issue5
Pages755-771
Publication date2014-04-25
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Spanish Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1475-3820 • E-ISSN: 1478-3428
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14753820.2014.909144
OpenAlexW2053998919
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The Franco regime's notion of hispanidad stood for a specific style of thought, based upon the imagery of ‘Baroque Spain’ and referring to the sense of cultural superiority and religious mission as well as to the close relations between Spain and ‘Hispanoamérica’. Using references to Baroque arts and architecture as a rhetorical instrument, the discourse of hispanidad was meant to strengthen the assertion of an essential unity between Spain and its former colonies. To assert themselves within the regime, Spanish politicians had to adapt their purposes to this discourse. Surprisingly, this principle applied also to the cautious European policy of the early 1950s as well as to the regime's aggressive Cold War anti-communism. The ideological flexibility of this concept of hispanidad is shown by the example of the Centro Europeo de Documentación e Información (CEDI). The CEDI was founded in 1952 with the active support of the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (ICH) as a political instrument, but gradually turned into an independent platform for conservative European elites, transgressing the role it had originally been assigned within the Franco regime

Art · Art history · Baroque · Classicism · Communism · Humanities · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Style (visual arts · Utopia · Historical Art and Architecture Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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