This book seeks to deepen an understanding of the often overlooked nature of
Spanish modernity by putting recent work on visual culture and modernity in a
specifically Spanish historical context. This volume examines how mass print
culture, early cinema, popular drama, photography, fashion, painting, museums
and urban planning played a role in the way that Spanish society saw itself and
was in turn seen by the rest of the world. The authors consider such subjects as
the spectacle of the body, notions of race and gender, the changing meanings of
time, space and motion, popular culture, and the celebration of the new.