What is it about?
This article is about a little-known Spanish ultraista play written by Isaac del Vando-Villar and Luis Mosquera, whose heroine may have been inspired in two women artists active in Madrid's early avant-garde, Sonia Delaunay and Norah Borges. Analaysis of the play is centred on the implications of its love story, which is the occasion for debate about the modern woman artist's ambitions.
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Why is it important?
Not much has been written about the reception of women's art in the early days of the avant-garde. The play is unique in that it reveals both prejudice and enthusiasm.
Perspectives
Sometimes the woman artist appears to be based on Sonia Delaunay and her documented attempts to commercialize her art (simultanism). But details of her personal circumstances bring the artist closer to Norah Borges, who was chaperoned by her family in Spain.
Dr Roberta Ann Quance
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This page is a summary of: Love and the woman artist: anultraísta‘puzzle’, Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, April 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14701847.2010.508895.
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