Entre tradición y vanguardia. Sobre las versiones ibéricas del Surrealismo

This study repositions, in light of studies such as Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel’s Les avant-gardes artistiques (1918-1945). Une histoire transnationale (2017), some of the key authors of the time who fell—despite the evasions—under a clear surrealist influence, including: J.V. Foix, Salvador Dalí, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Federico García Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Almeida Negreiros, and Alexandre O’Neill. Joyeux-Prunel’s book stands out because it stu- dies the effects of globalization and circulation in the field of visual arts of the avant-garde aesthetic, although it does not touch on literature. The author deconstructs the limited histories of the avant-gardes, too attentive to a national localist mentality, and focuses on the circulation and connections between different national spaces based on institutio- nal (salons, magazines, critics) and commercial logics. Through a chronological-thematic analysis, she proposes a transnational history in a “more general, global, and social reading of modernity” (Joyeux-Prunel 2017, 920). Following this proposal, this chapter addresses the connections between Iberian contributions to Surrealism, particularly focusing on a barely studied case like that of the Catalan author J.V. Foix.