Encounters with the 30s

The 1930s was a turbulent decade across the world with the rise of totalitarian governments, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and the constant migration of artists as part of evolving social, economic and political geographies that were marked by utopian dreams and devastating upheavals. This book approaches the 1930s and seeks to explore the micro-histories that detail the movement of artists across borders, the potential transformation of artistic styles and the concurrent struggle to preserve old networks admist the creation of new comunities in often radically new contexts of artistic production. Surrealism, Abstraction, Realism, Photography, Publicity and the Spanish Civil War are some of the key points of this book, with works from Brassaï, Hans Arp, Cartier-Bresson, Max Ernst, Miró, Picasso and many more key names.