Representations or realities? : Still Framing and Architecture in Contemporary Spain
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Representations, images, comic art, illustration, geographies, margins, urbanism, tourism, touristification, Málaga, Spain, Hispanic World, Torremolinos, Costa del Sol, Hospitality industry, Leisure, Chile, underground, Pop Culture, Andalusia, Advertising, Poster ArtSynopsis
This book includes a dozen essays, along with several editorial texts devoted to the intertextual coherence of the volume, such as the one you are reading now. On this occasion, the Claroscuros contributors weave together perspectives and subtle methodologies drawn from sociology, literary criticism, art history, cultural studies, and aesthetics, addressing the roles of comics and architecture, advertising and tourism, within the specific Spanish sociopolitical context. The way in which the universes of our physical or ideographic geographies are interconnected in turn shapes how broader cultural inputs relate to countercultural movements and pop art, with consequences for the configuration of identity and cooperative values. The result is a broad panorama in which readers can appreciate how culture does not operate through isolated or distant disciplines, but rather as a set of organically connected systems in which reciprocal inspiration plays a fundamental role. This is something both vernacular and evident to anyone who engages with culture and, moreover, highly explicit in the history of art.
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IntroductionRhizomatics of space, worlds and representation
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Pop comics: origins and development in Spain
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The construction of worlds in *The Adventures of Captain Torrezno* by Santiago Valenzuela
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Rabia del Sur, a noir comic from Málaga.
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Visual and underground arts: news from Chile during the La Movida era
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Art as a narrative device in Renfe’s advertising
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Cockroaches in Galicia: an artistic and protest-driven project
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The Costa del Sol in pre-democratic Spain: tourism, culture and freedom. The foundations of today’s pop culture
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Tourist identity and the trivialisation of heritage in Torremolinos (1959–1979)
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Genealogical tourism and associations: values of identity and cooperation.
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Gaona, the invisible building
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A beach at the foot of the mountains: education, gender, landscapes, hospitality and leisure on the eastern and western Costa del Sol (1970s–1980s to 2025)
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June 3, 2026
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978-84-1335-491-0
