By Aránzazu Ascunce Arenas

For 1000's of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep competition. all through background, they've got competed in essentially each point of social existence, game, politics, and tradition. whereas pageant among towns is regular in lots of international locations world wide, when it comes to Barcelona and Madrid it's been, every now and then, excessively opposed. through the years they've got each one attempted to illustrate that one was once extra glossy than the opposite, or extra avant-garde, or richer, or extra athletic, etc. thankfully, the Spain of at the present time is a democracy and each state and sector of the country has the freedom to behave. As such, the contention among those capitals has turn into efficient not just for the towns themselves, but additionally for Spain as an entire. 100 years in the past, on the onset of the historic Avant-Garde in Spain, the connections among Barcelona and Madrid consisted of a sophisticated internet of politics, friendships, guides, and inter-art collaborations. during the last century, the opposed courting among those cultural capitals has been disregarded as easily a truth of lifestyles and thereby students, for the main half, have centred merely on Barcelona or Madrid whilst addressing this cultural second. by means of delving deep into the myriad of cultural and political complexities that encompass those towns from the onset of Futurism (1909) to the coming of Surrealism in Spain (1929), a posh social and cultural community is printed. Networking among artists, poets, newshounds and thinkers attached avant-garde Barcelona and Madrid, thereby developing synergy for this creative and literary move. In a hybrid, transdisciplarian, translingual and old process utilizing quite a lot of visible and textual artifacts, the complexity of interactions defined the following opens our mind's eye to new methods of considering culture.

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