Juan Larrea (poet)
Juan Larrea Celayeta(Bilbao,13 March 1895 –Córdoba,Argentina,9 July 1980) was a Spanish essayist and poet.
He studied literature at theUniversity of Salamanca,and moved later toPariswhere he published inFrench languagethe magazineFavorables París PoemawithCésar Vallejo.After theSpanish Civil War,he moved definitively to the Americas, where he was an active member of the cultural life. He was an incessant collector and some of his collections aboutIncaart were donated to theNational Archaeological Museum of Spainin 1937.[1]
Guernica(1937 Picasso painting)[edit]
Immediately after hearing about the 26 April 1937bombing of Guernica,Larrea visitedPablo Picassoin his Paris studio and urged him to make the bombing the subject for the large mural theSpanish Republicangovernment had commissioned him to create for the Spanish pavilion at the1937 Paris World's Fair,which resulted in Picasso's famed anti-war paintingGuernica.[2]
Works[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- Oscuro dominio,1935
- Versión celeste,1969
- Orbe,1990
Essays[edit]
- Arte Peruano(1935)
- Rendición de Espíritu(1943)
- El Surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo mundo(1944)
- The Vision of the "Guernica"(1947)
- La Religión del Lenguaje Español(1951)
- La Espada de la Paloma(1956)
- Razón de Ser(1956)
- César Vallejo o Hispanoamérica en la Cruz de su Razón(1958)
- Teleología de la cultura(1965)
- Del surrealismo a Machu Picchu(1967)
- Guernica(1977)
- Cara y cruz de la República(1980)
References[edit]
- ^(Gutiérrez Bolívar 1995,p. 7)
- ^John Richardson "A Different Guernica".The New York Review of Books,12 May 2016, pp. 4–6.
Works cited[edit]
- Gutiérrez Bolívar, Jorge (1995)."El legado de Juan Larrea".Anales del Museo de América(in Spanish) (3). Madrid:Museo de América:7–20.ISSN1133-8741.
External links[edit]
- (in Spanish)El "Guernica" de Juan LarreaonYouTube,video de Santiago Amón, para TVE
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