Dear participant,
Thanks for signing up for this workshop. We are looking forward to spending some time with you on Zoom! Here are some preliminary readings, web pages to peruse, and a 28-minute video —originally produced for our professional-development work with teachers— to help you prepare for the workshop.
Readings:
- Cary Nelson, “Art in Flames: The Spanish Civil War Poster.” Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Home from the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers. University of Illinois Press, 1996, pp. 15-26.
- Jordana Mendelson, “Beautiful Contradictions: News Pictures and Modern Magazines.” Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News. Bloomsbury, 2015, ed. Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz, pp. 154-60.
- Sebastiaan Faber, “Memory as Montage.” Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography. Vanderbilt UP, 2018, pp. 11-32.
Viewing:
- The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Media (28-minute video originally prepared for ALBA’s teacher workshops), on YouTube
Websites to peruse:
- https://alba-valb.org/online-lesson-spanish-civil-war-posters/
- https://alba-valb.org/lesson/primary-materials-posters/
Optional additional readings:
- (In Spanish:) María Ruipérez, “Renau-Fontseré: Los carteles de la guerra civil.” Tiempo de historia. Año V, n. 49 (1 dic. 1978), pp. 10-25.
- Jordana Mendelson, “Propaganda Laboratories: Artists and Magazines during the Spanish Civil War.” Magazines and War, 1936-39. Madrid: Reina Sofía, 2007, pp. 340-83.
Additional materials
This two-part PowerPoint contains pairs of poster images from the Republican and Nationalist side:
Online Spanish Civil War poster collections:
- ALBA Collection at Tamiment Library, NYU: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/alba_graphics_001/
- The Visual Front: Spanish Republican Posters, UC San Diego: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/
- Spanish Republican Posters (page archived on Web Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20170424172257/http://www.elgrancapitan.org/portal/index.php/articulos/guerra-civil-espanola/carteles-de-la-guerra-civil/bando-republicano
- Wikimedia Commons page on Spanish Civil War posters: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Spanish_Civil_War_posters
- Nationalist Posters (page archived on Web Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20170424063707/http://www.elgrancapitan.org/portal/index.php/articulos/guerra-civil-espanola/carteles-de-la-guerra-civil/bando-nacional
- Nationalist Posters (page archived on Web Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20140601133536/http://algargoshistoria.lacoctelera.net/post/2014/03/04/carteles-y-propaganda-el-bando-nacional-guerra-civil-espa
- Library of Congress (USA): Spanish Civil War Posters: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/spcw/ (part of the collection of Visual Materials Relating to the Spanish Civil War: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/spanish-civil-war-visual-materials.html)
- Centre d’Estudis Llibertaris Federica Montseny: CNT-FAI (anarchist) posters (in Spanish)
- Imperial War Museum: Posters
- Memòria Digital de Catalunya: posters, profiled, in English, on Europeana
- University of Catalonia: Republican posters, most from the civil war period (in Spanish)
- SCW posters (from Brandeis University) at Europeana, the EU-wide digital archive
- SCW posters at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam