{"product_id":"the-prado-spanish-culture-and-leisure-1819-1939-9780271078588","title":"The Prado: Spanish Culture and Leisure, 1819-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eugenia Afinoguénova\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Spain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Prado\u003c\/i\u003e takes an unconventional look at Spain's most iconic art museum. Focusing on the Prado as a space of urban leisure, Eugenia Afinoguénova highlights the political history of the museum's relation to the monarchy, the church, and the liberal nation-state, as well as its role as an extension of Madrid's social center, the Prado Promenade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than assume that visitors agreed about how to interpret the museum, Afinoguénova approaches the history of the Prado as a debate about culture and leisure. Just like those crossing the museum's threshold, who did not always trace a firm line between what they could see or do inside the building and outside on the Paseo del Prado, the participants in this debate--journalists, politicians, museum directors, art critics--considered museum-going to be part of a broader discussion concerning citizenship and voting rights, the rise of Madrid to the status of a modern capital, and the growing gap between town and country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive archival research on the museum's displays and policies as well as the attitudes of visitors and city-dwellers, \u003ci\u003eThe Prado\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds the museum's many political and propagandistic roles and examines its complicated history as a monument to the tension between culture and leisure. Art historians and scholars of museum studies and visual and leisure culture will find this foundational study of the Prado invaluable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889059446935,"sku":"9780271078588","price":6800.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271078588.webp?v=1781173912","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-prado-spanish-culture-and-leisure-1819-1939-9780271078588","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}