Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their own sake, was a Hispanic reinvention. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but then lost, and it did not come back in force until the end of the 16th century in northern Italy, Holland and Spain, all of which were under the sway of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty...
...novel is continuing proof that Garcia is the master of putting a lot of story into a small space. Spanish austerity, religious authority, classical humanism and African animism compete in a tight setting of cultural decay and utter remoteness. "The city lay submerged in its centuries-long torpor" pretty much sums up the situation. When Mar?a asks Father Cayetano what is on the other side of the ocean, he answers wistfully, "The world...
...complicated knot of cultural ideas about materialism and transcendence, illusion and reality, pleasure and denial, life and death. Not until recently, however, has it been given deep museum treatment, and the exhibition that has done so is on view through May 21 at London's National Gallery. Spanish Still Life from Velazquez to Goya, curated by the art historians William Jordan and Peter Cherry, puts together some 70 paintings, some well known and others entirely fresh. It is a brilliant show...
...vanity." Such images were meant to show the fleeting nature of the world's goods, honors and sensual pleasures, setting them against the terrible perspective of death, time and judgment. They exemplified the desenga?o del mundo, "disillusionment of the world," that was one of the chief tropes of Spanish Baroque art and literature. They could be small and simple-three moldy skulls and a pocket watch-or fulsome in their cascade of lessons...
Kathryn Harrison's new novel (Random House; 317 pages; $23) about the Spanish Inquisition is, according to TIME critic John Skow, "very good, and a complete surprise." The story follows the separate torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel...