Weaving together 22 full-colour drawings and new translations of prose pieces and poems, "Only Mystery" presents the life of Spain's greatest modern poet and playwright. In 1936 a death squad executed 38-year-old Federico Garcia Lorca, dumping his body into an unmarked common grave near Lorca's native city of Granada. This volume of his visual art ...
From the ancient Phoenicians through Maimonides to Pablo Picasso's retrospective exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1980, this study spans more than three thousand years of Spain's Andalusian civilization. Allen Josephs focuses on the cultural distinctions that have set Andalucia apart throughout recorded history: its Oriental origins, its ...
Allen Josephs paints a portrait of life in and around the world's most prestigious bullrings, demonstrating how and why the "corrida" (or bullfight) remains a sacred and integral part of Hispanic culture. Joseph's unromanticized account is the result of four seasons spent on the corridor circuit with Cesar Rincon, the most esteemed matador in ...
Addressing a 1937 Writers Congress in a rare public speech, Ernest Hemingway proclaimed that there is "only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is fascism. For fascism is a lie told by bullies. A writer who will not lie cannot live and work under fascism". With this rallying cry against the fascist forces in ...
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