An Old Art for a New Culture: The Popular and the Avant-Garde in Josep Renau's Nueva Cultura

摘要

The Spanish artist Josep Renau (1907-1982) published the propagandaperiodical Nueva cultura from 1935 to 1937. Although richly illustrated with cuttingedgegraphic design and photomontage, it made use of popular culture with morefrequency than might be expected in a left-wing, vanguard publication. This is seenmost notably in the March 1937 special edition, published to coincide with a local,popular festival. In the special edition, Renau primarily utilized popular forms ofillustration in the layout. Further, by publishing it in the regional language ratherthan Castilian Spanish, he attested to the importance of addressing people in theirown language, both linguistically and formally. This thesis examines the periodical inrelation to philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s writings on folk culture and James V.Wertsch’s research on collective remembering.