Primitivism, Folklore and Modernism in 1920s Granada. Federico García Lorca, Manuel de Falla and the fameless Hermenegildo Lanz

• Autores: Emilio Escoriza Escoriza
• Localización: The Trouble with 'Primitivism' in Iberian, Latin American and Other Semi-Peripheral Contexts / Joana Cunha Leal (ed. lit.), Mariana Pinto Dos Santos (ed. lit.), Noemí de Haro García (ed. lit.), Petra Šarin (ed. lit.), 2025, ISBN 978-989-35191-3-4, págs. 47-68
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter focuses on the notions of primitivism, folklore, and modernism operating in Granada, in the south of Spain, from the 1920s until the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. At the heart of the topic lies “El Rinconcillo”, a Granadian cultural group made known by some prominent members, such as the world-famous poet Federico García Lorca and the composer Manuel de Falla, along with many other ‘satellite’ intellectuals, such as the multifaceted yet fameless artist and drawing teacher Hermenegildo Lanz. Lanz’s work will be thoroughly analysed while discussing the context in which he worked from a new perspective that identifies primitivism as a basis for innovation. Lanz’s work and Granada’s cultural milieu in this period will eventually contribute to elucidate complex threads of modernism developing in a periphery.