#PapelesDelCambio | During the twenty-year period from 1968 to 1988 Spanish culture experienced a transition from the dream of revolution to an agreed break with – and against – the Franco regime.
This transition was ushered in by huge minorities of keen and excited readers, many with new habits, alternative and anarchic music lovers, and people who experimented with drugs both old and new (hash, marihuana, acid, LSD, and soon heroine). They were so like the young people of London, Berlin, Rome and Paris that they seemed to have grown up outside the reactionary bubble of Francoism.
Books, their new publishers and new collections began pricking that bubble of anachronism and conformity very early on. Hundreds of titles triggered the first attack of cultural bulimia that Spain had experienced since the war.
This is a small and selective exhibition of a few of them: together they tell of the change that society underwent through its books and its publishers.
Talks and activities relating to the main themes will be held in connection with the exhibition.
This transition was ushered in by huge minorities of keen and excited readers, many with new habits, alternative and anarchic music lovers, and people who experimented with drugs both old and new (hash, marihuana, acid, LSD, and soon heroine). They were so like the young people of London, Berlin, Rome and Paris that they seemed to have grown up outside the reactionary bubble of Francoism.
Books, their new publishers and new collections began pricking that bubble of anachronism and conformity very early on. Hundreds of titles triggered the first attack of cultural bulimia that Spain had experienced since the war.
This is a small and selective exhibition of a few of them: together they tell of the change that society underwent through its books and its publishers.
Talks and activities relating to the main themes will be held in connection with the exhibition.
