Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist
By Carles Fontserè
Length16h 37m
About this audiobook
The political poster explosion of July 1936 has been highly acclaimed by critics and scholars worldwide. One of the best-known posters of the time, "Freedom!" – which has acquired near cult status – shows a peasant holding a sickle aloft, set against the anarchist red-and-black flag. The artist, Carles Fontserè, was just twenty years old when he joined the revolution along with fellow artists and comrades-in-arms, Josep Alumà, Helios Gómez, Antoni Clavé and many others who appear in this account.
In his outstanding memoirs, which are more artistic, political and collective than intimate, Fontserè recounts his upbringing in a petit bourgeois family with Carlist leanings along with his experience in the Barcelona Requeté. His thirst for reading led him to the writings of Tolstoy, which inspired his nascent libertarian ideals culminating in his road-to-Damascus transformation during the heady events of the Nationalist military uprising in Barcelona.
Fontserè played a key role in the founding of the Professional Drawing Union in 1936 and went on to draw posters for the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), among other political parties. He served with the International Brigades and, paradoxically, survived several close brushes with death from his own side. His story culminates with the Republican retreat from Barcelona and his escape over the Pyrenees, together with Catalan president Lluís Companys and his cabinet, into exile in France.
Fontserè's Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist masterfully combines autobiography and history through the eyes of one of the 20th century's foremost Catalan graphic artists, known worldwide for his Republican propaganda posters. The book of Carles Fontserè's memoirs is not only an excellent translation from Catalan to English, but one central to the history of Catalonia.
Audiobook details
GenreOther
Length16 hrs 37 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Preface
4The Republic and the Requeté
5Enriching Experiences
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6The Traditionalist Circle
7The Barcelona Requeté
8Early Political Drawings
9The Beginnings of a Profession
10Forerunners of Political Art in Autonomous Catalonia
111933: A Crucial Year
12The Revolution of 6 October 1934
13Graphic Artist
14The Elections of 16 February 1936
15Optimism of the Left
16The Founding of the Professional Drawing Union
17Not Just Any Summer Sunday
18The Solterra-Barbarà Palace
19The First Posters
20Colleagues and Fellow Travellers
21Other Professionals and Unions
22Antifacist Propaganda on Railway Carriages
23Social Strife and Mayhem
24The SDP: A Hub for Graphic Propaganda
25Revolutionary Cartoonists
26The Walls Speak Out
27From Worker Unity to the CADCI Meeting
28From the Catalan Militias to the Spanish Army
29The Watershed Moment of May 1937
30From the Rear-Guard to the Front and Vice Versa
31Catalans in the International Brigades
32Albacete, International BrigadeHeadquarters
33From Cambrils to the Ebro Front
34Between the Propaganda Commissariat and AAA Headquarters
35Barcelona, Capital of Republican Spain
36Last Days of the War in Catalonia
37Post Scriptum – The Survival of the Republican Poster
38A note on the translation
39Index of Acronyms
40Photographs & Posters
41Selection of posters by some of the artists mentioned by Carles Fontserè
42Acknowledgements
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