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Barrón, Sofía (2015). Picasso y Cornuty. La absenta como adicción cambiosecular europea. In: La voz del pueblo en el espacio cultural europeo: El pueblo y su identidad, pp. 109-122. Universität zu Köln, Arbeitskreis Spanien - Portugal - Lateinamerika.

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Abstract

Electricity coined the nightlife in the European capital par excellence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: Paris. Under the artificial reflection dandies, elegant workers, and bohemians flocked to the new playground. Painters, converted to urban chroniclers, show pictorial modernity and vitality; in the canvas of Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas or Jean Béraud we see a common element: the glass of absinthe on the table. The absinthe took sacrosanct dyes in the daily living of Parisian habitants and became an indispensable ritual to Henri Albert Cornuty, a poet who was part of the Madrid bohemian and in the gallery of disinherited that Picasso painted in blue stage. A writer and a painter that bring us to the drink-image of the intelligentsia of the time; this elixir was attributed with hypnotic, aphrodisiac and hallucinogenic powers; the myth of absinthe was part of the imaginary Paris at end of the century, an iconography that continues shaping identity in the twenty-first century.

Item Type:	Book Section
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Barrón, Sofía UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Wentzlaff-Eggebert, Christian mail-aspla(at)uni-koeln.de UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Traine, Martín mail-aspla(at)uni-koeln.de UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Corporate Creators:	Arbeitskreis Spanien - Portugal - Lateinamerika
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-68050
Title of Book:	La voz del pueblo en el espacio cultural europeo: El pueblo y su identidad
Volume:	14
Page Range:	pp. 109-122
Date:	2015
Publisher:	Universität zu Köln, Arbeitskreis Spanien - Portugal - Lateinamerika
ISSN:	1438-6887
Language:	Spanish
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Zentrale Forschungseinrichtungen > Zentrum für Lateinamerika
Subjects:	Romance languages French The arts Geography and history
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Vanguardias artísticas, fin de siglo, pintura moderna, absenta Spanish artistic vanguards, turn of the century, modern painting, absinthe English
Related URLs:	Organisation
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/6805