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)
Online exhibition: The imprint of women artists in post-war Barcelona
Exhibition: «Creators in Residence»: Svantje Busshoff at the Vall d'Hebron Institute
Screening of La maleta mexicana (Trisha Ziff, 2011)
Talk-itinerary "Antoni Campañà and the Civil war in Barcelona. Bombings and the fight to survive"
Online visit: Spaces and storytelling of the Civil War
Video: Spaces and stories of the Civil War. Air warfare and the defense of the territory
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
