Oscar E. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Inventing the Art Collection: Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain, also published by Penn State.

“Vázquez’s location of Spanish visual cultures within this intricate interdisciplinary kaleidoscope of fin de siglo artists, writers, criminologists, eugenicists, neurologists and scientists illuminates a national paranoia that festered in Spain from the ‘national disaster’—seemingly foretold by The Descent of Man—that signified for so many ‘the end’ of the Spanish race.”—Fae Brauer Burlington Magazine

• ContentsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1Fragmentation: Fortuny’s Frame and the Melancholy of the New Chapter 2Suture: Academies, Regionalism and Artistic Decline Chapter 3 Exhaustion: Degeneration in Fin de Siglo Spanish ArtsChapter 4Parody: Exhibitions Spaces and ModernismChapter 5Containment: Reconquests, Colonialism and the Specter of CollapseChapter 6 (Dis)Inheritance: Rachitic Bodies and Medical Discourses Chapter 7Decay: Or, the Aristocracy’s DegenerationChapter 8Displacements: Regoyos, Verhaeren and La España Negra EpilogueThe End AgainNotesBibliographyIndex

Oscar E. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Inventing the Art Collection: Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain, also published by Penn State.

“Vázquez’s location of Spanish visual cultures within this intricate interdisciplinary kaleidoscope of fin de siglo artists, writers, criminologists, eugenicists, neurologists and scientists illuminates a national paranoia that festered in Spain from the ‘national disaster’—seemingly foretold by The Descent of Man—that signified for so many ‘the end’ of the Spanish race.”—Fae Brauer Burlington Magazine

• ContentsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1Fragmentation: Fortuny’s Frame and the Melancholy of the New Chapter 2Suture: Academies, Regionalism and Artistic Decline Chapter 3 Exhaustion: Degeneration in Fin de Siglo Spanish ArtsChapter 4Parody: Exhibitions Spaces and ModernismChapter 5Containment: Reconquests, Colonialism and the Specter of CollapseChapter 6 (Dis)Inheritance: Rachitic Bodies and Medical Discourses Chapter 7Decay: Or, the Aristocracy’s DegenerationChapter 8Displacements: Regoyos, Verhaeren and La España Negra EpilogueThe End AgainNotesBibliographyIndex

Oscar E. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Inventing the Art Collection: Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain, also published by Penn State.

“Vázquez’s location of Spanish visual cultures within this intricate interdisciplinary kaleidoscope of fin de siglo artists, writers, criminologists, eugenicists, neurologists and scientists illuminates a national paranoia that festered in Spain from the ‘national disaster’—seemingly foretold by The Descent of Man—that signified for so many ‘the end’ of the Spanish race.”—Fae Brauer Burlington Magazine

• ContentsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1Fragmentation: Fortuny’s Frame and the Melancholy of the New Chapter 2Suture: Academies, Regionalism and Artistic Decline Chapter 3 Exhaustion: Degeneration in Fin de Siglo Spanish ArtsChapter 4Parody: Exhibitions Spaces and ModernismChapter 5Containment: Reconquests, Colonialism and the Specter of CollapseChapter 6 (Dis)Inheritance: Rachitic Bodies and Medical Discourses Chapter 7Decay: Or, the Aristocracy’s DegenerationChapter 8Displacements: Regoyos, Verhaeren and La España Negra EpilogueThe End AgainNotesBibliographyIndex