[DOC] Manga Magic: How to Draw and Color Mythical and Fantasy Characters by Supittha "Annie" Bunyapen at Arts-Photography

Description

Majismo; a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century; served as a vehicle to ldquo;regainrdquo; Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish; majismo conferred on Spanish ldquo;citizensrdquo; the pictorial ideal of a shared national character.In Framing Majismo; Tara Zanardi explores noblesrsquo; fascination with and appropriation of the practices and types associated with majismo; as well as how this connection cultivated the formation of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and aided the Bourbonsrsquo; objective to fashion themselves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular; the book considers artistic and literary representations of the majo and the maja; purportedly native types who embodied and performed uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating eighteenth-century conceptions of gender; national character; and noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were contrasted with those regarded as ldquo;foreign;rdquo; finding that ldquo;foreignrdquo; and ldquo;nationalrdquo; bodies were frequently described and depicted in similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances of bodily representation; ultimately showing how the body and the emergent nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical moment for both.