Costumes espagnols entre ombre et lumière [Spanish Costumes: Darkness and Light]

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Notes

1. The exhibition title translations used in this review are those used by the host institutions.

2. The first edition of this series was published in Germany in 1929 under the title of Spanische Köpfe, followed by the Spanish edition in 1930.

3. The original text reads: “despertar el lago adormecido de la conciencia nacional … agitar con razones estéticas principios éticos y étnicos de las regions” (La Esfera, June 20, 1925).

4. Previously the Balenciaga Museum had explored the connections between the two and how they approached popular and regional dress in an exhibition titled “Carbón y terciopelo: miradas de Ortiz-Echagüe y Balenciaga sobre el traje popular [Coal and Velvet: Ortiz-Echagüe’s and Balenciaga’s Views on Popular Costume],” on view at the Cristobal Balenciaga Museoa, Guetaria, October 6, 2016–May 7, 2017, curated by Ana Balda and Igor Uria.

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Victoria de Lorenzo

Victoria de Lorenzo is a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow undertaking the project “Connecting Threads: Circulation and Consumption of Textiles between Britain and the Spanish Speaking World in the Long Nineteenth Century” funded by a Lord Kelvin–Adam Smith interdisciplinary PhD scholarship. [email protected]