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The Culture of Regionalism is the first international comparative study of regionalism, and provides a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism

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This pioneering book studies the rise, heyday and demise of regionalism from the Belle Epoque until the Eve of the Second World War. By using a novel comparative perspective it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism. Storm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-garde.Regional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in France, Germany and Spain. Artists, architects and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this process. They all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unity.This book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of France, Germany and Spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies and architectural history. -- .

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Eric Storm is Lecturer in General History at Leiden University

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List of plates and figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction I Painting (1890–1914)1. France2. Germany3. SpainII Architecture (1900–25)4. Germany5. France6. SpainIII International Exhibitions (1910–39) 7. Barcelona and Seville8. Paris9. Munich and DüsseldorfConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Eric Storm has provided us with a window into European nationalism and regionalism at the turn of the twentieth century, and his book will be most valuable to cultural historians and historians of nationalism, no matter which nation they study. -- .

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Fascism certainly ruined a lot of folklore for future generations. Whatmay have once been art was now camp. But Eric Storm''s important book nowrescues us from the stranglehold of fascism by showing us how European culturesof regionalism were thoroughly modern constructions meant to compete withofficial culture during the period roughly spanning 1890-1945. Storm''s work isan ambitious study of regionalism in France, Germany, and Spain via the mediaof painting, architecture, and exhibitions, and it is through his comparativeexplorations that he tells us a great deal about nationalism and cultural creation inthis period.Instead of viewing regionalism as something that was subsumed by theconstruction of national identities, he argues that "[r]egional identities . . weremore precisely defined or even invented after 1890 when the correspondingnational identity had already largely crystallised" (6). Regionalist culturesremained "organically connected to the broader fatherland" and they reallyrepresented "a new phase in the nation-building process as most ''new'' regionalidentities supplemented the existing national identities by vastly broadening thenational heritage and by providing it with local roots" (10). He also argues thatregionalist culture was innovative, international in scope, and--mostcompellingly--that it vied with avant-garde culture as the most competitivealternative to official culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.For the purposes of this review and for the book itself, it is important to note thatStorm sees "regionalism" as a neutral term describing a "movement that promotedthe study, construction and reinforcement of regional identity" (6). This definitionis in contrast to what scholars might call "regional nationalism," which was apolitical and cultural call for regional autonomy or independence, as seen inplaces like the Basque Country or Catalonia. This distinction is necessarybecause regional nationalists tended to reject the regionalist cultural movementsdiscussed in this book.Storm''s work covers painting, architecture, and international/nationalexhibitions. He examines the ideological suppositions behind French, German,and Spanish regional artists'' works, as well as critics'' responses to these works.France took the lead in regionalist painting, whereas the Germans accelerated thetrend toward regionalist architecture, and the Spanish toward regionalistexhibitions.Generally, regionalist painters appropriated the impressionists'' artistictechniques, but instead of choosing an impressionist picturesque tableau, theregionalists sought to depict "quite unimpressive, flat landscapes of coastal planesand arid plateaux" (think Castile) and peopled their canvasses with "clearlyidentifiable types . . . dressed in the traditional costume of a specific village . . ."(27). The regionalist painters chose to paint regions that they deemed "mosttypical" (67) of their nation and which seemed least touched by foreign influence,such as Brittany and Castile. The painters of these regions believed that bycapturing the essence of these harsh landscapes and their inhabitants, they could"reveal the most profound character of the nation as a whole" (68). Stormprovides an intriguing analysis of regionalist artists'' contributions to artisticmodernism when he states that regional artists "were taken seriously by [their]opponents . . . as an almost completely forgotten negative impetus to twentiethcenturyavant-garde movements" (66). On a weaker note, while Storm makes agood case for Ignacio Zuloaga''s role in developing Castile as the focus ofregionalist painting in Spain, the other important regionalist painter, Joaqu

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Eric Storm has provided us with a window into European nationalism and regionalism at the turn of the twentieth century, and his book will be most valuable to cultural historians and historians of nationalism, no matter which nation they study.

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The first international comparative study of regionalism, which establishes regionalism as a transnational phenomenon, describing its rise, heyday and demise between 1890 and 1939.. Contains a wide-ranging analysis of various aspects of the culture of regionalism: painting, architecture and international exhibitions. Gives a provocative new interpretation of the almost forgotten role of regionalism in the rise of the modern avant-garde.. Provides a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism and nationalism.

Details ISBN0719081475 Author Eric Storm Short Title CULTURE OF REGIONALISM Publisher Manchester University Press Language English ISBN-10 0719081475 ISBN-13 9780719081477 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-07-01 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 320.94 Birth 1966 UK Release Date 2010-07-01 NZ Release Date 2010-07-01 Illustrations Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour Pages 336 Subtitle Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890–1939 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-06-30 We've got this

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