Art, War & Memory
During the war years, many artists decided not to remain neutral: art became a powerful weapon for stirring consciences and rallying followers to one political cause or another.
Despite the dramatic conditions of the context, this mobilisation was the culmination of some of the aspirations of modern art and the avant-garde. War as a motif unfolds a whole iconographic programme featuring themes such as the war front, aerial bombardments and the massacres and evacuations of the civilian population.
RESOURCES:
Video: Spaces and stories of the Civil War. Art and commitment (MNAC)
The construction of the image of the enemy and graphic humor
Roser Cambray tells us about the photographer's early years (video)
Arnau Gonzàlez talks to us about photography (video)
Guided tour: The Endless War. Antoni Campañà (video)
'The infinite war. Antoni Campañà'. Jesús Galdón: The designer explains 'The 1001 stories from nowhere' (video)
Making of the exhibition 'The Infinite War. Antoni Campañà' (video)
Aeronautics [Flight] Interior, by Francesc Torres. Presentation of the installation (video)
Museum in Danger! Safeguarding and organisation of Catalan art during the Civil War
Pepe Serra, Museum in Danger! Safeguarding and organisation of Catalan art during the Civil War (video)
Museum in Danger! Safeguarding and organisation of Catalan art during the Civil War (video)
Exposició en línia: L'empremta de les dones artistes a la Barcelona de postguerra
Mostra: «Creadors En Residència»: Svantje Busshoff a l’Institut Vall d’Hebron
Filmoteca: La maleta mexicana, Trisha Ziff, 2011, dins el cicle «Per amor a les Arts»
Xerrada-Itinerari en línia: Antoni Campañà i la Guerra Civil a Barcelona. Bombardejos i lluita per sobreviure
Visites en línia: Espais i relats de la guerra Civil
Vídeo: Espais i relats de la Guerra Civil. La guerra aèria i la defensa del territori
Family activity: Kati Horna, in the cycle “Small stories, great women”.
Podcast: Subversive sounds: voices, guerrillas and LGBTI shelters
Cinema: Josep, Aurélien Froment “Aurel”, 2020, in the framework of the «7th Art. Cinema at the Museum»
Online conference: Art in danger! Heritage and safeguarding in the Spanish Civil War