CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Ruigomez Eraso, Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | Forgetting? Forget It: Negotiating Spanish National Memory Through Art |
| Summary | The thesis deals with the recent shift in Spanish memory politics and its influence on art restitutions in Spain. The first chapter comprises a summary of relevant historical precedents. Art movements during the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, both under the Republican government and Rebel administration, and later on Franco dictatorship, are traced. A section is dedicated to the case study of the restitution of two artworks to the heirs of Ramon de la Sota. The second chapter deals with collective memory theory. This is helpful to understand which processes have shaped the recent growing interest in publicly processing the Franco dictatorship. I investigate two developments that have shaped Spanish memory politics in particular: the processing of the Holocaust, and the consequences of the Spanish Amnesty Agreement of 1977. Finally, I return to the Ramon de la Sota case to test the applicability of these developments, as well as the applicability to the Law of Democratic Memory. The thesis ends with a conclusion. |
| Supervisor | McKeown, Timothy |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/ruigomez-eraso_maria.pdf |
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