La revista "Mundial Magazine" de Rubén Darío : una interpretación desde la antropología del imaginario

Zusammenfassung

Mundial Magazine (1911-1914) was a magazine directed from Paris by Rubén Darío, which published many of the great writers of Hispanic modernism at the end of said period. Although it was culturally oriented, its content was very varied and it was notable for incorporating careful illustrations and numerous photographs that reproduced images aimed at a bourgeois public. Overall, it is an example of commercial success in which, over the course of its three years, modernist literary and plastic art went hand in hand with the commercial content typical of this type of publication.Its eminently visual character concurs with the intrinsic artistic value of the magazine. Mundial is the result of a continuous technological process that has enabled the propagation of the iconic image up to the present day. Thus, from today's perspective, it appears as the precedent of the image culture in which our society is currently immersed, offering a set of representations at the beginning of the 20th century, shortly before the explosion of mass media. The aim of the present work is to study the representations offered by the publication, the whole museum of images projected by the magazine through the word and the visual image in a conflictive period, in which modernist art had to coexist with and respond to the scientific and rational command that pervaded society...