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The modernist dream´, by the chronicler Francisco José Franco] | The event will take place on Thursday, October 31 at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center in the IV Modernist Exhibition of Cartagena de Levante |
“La Unión and Cartagena: 1874-1936.
The modernist dream â€is the book title that will be presented on Thursday October 31 at the Cinematograph Hermanos García auditorium of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center, at 7:30 p.m., with free admission until capacity is reached.
Edited by Ediciones Malbec, its author is the historian and official chronicler of Cartagena, Francisco José Franco Fernández.
The work delves into the historical aspects of politics, economy, society and culture, which are lived in both cities in the period between the end of the Cantonal War and the Second Republic, which coincides with the apogee of the mining and the development of the modernist movement.
The novelty lies in the joint analysis of both cities having as a thread the boom and the crisis of mining, industrial development, social problems, political evolution and the construction of a great intellectual and artistic movement coinciding with the modernist stage and which featured personalities such as Miguel Hernández, María Cegarra, Carmen Conde and Antonio Oliver.
Francisco José Franco Fernández (Murcia, 1963) is an official chronicler of Cartagena and corresponding academic of the Alfonso X El Sabio Academy.
He has a PhD in Anthropology and a degree in Modern and Contemporary History and Law;
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professor of the UNED of Cartagena.
He is also the author of several articles and books, being a specialist in the period between the two republics in the cities of Cartagena and La Unión.
Together with Franco, the presentation will be attended by the editor, Javier Salinas, and the president of the Cartagena de Levante Modernist Cultural Association, José Martínez, in whose IV Cultural Exhibition this activity is framed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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