Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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January 28, 2026

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If in Vienna between 1900 and 1918 modernity was perceived as a tension between tradition and rupture, interwar Paris transformed it into urban rhythm and a public stage. In the aftermath of the Great War, the city brought together exiles, avant-garde movements, and new leisure circuits: cafés, publishing houses, concert halls, cabarets, and recording studios. In architecture and urban planning, the reliance on the machine translated into a surge of rationalism and purism (from Le Corbusier to Mallet-Stevens), while the 1925 Exposition established the Art Deco aesthetic. In painting, from late Cubism to Surrealist languages, the image emancipated itself from narrative and explored the dreamlike and the fragmentary. The literature of Proust, Breton, and Sartre, each in their own way, explored a consciousness permeated by memory, desire, and politics. In music, Debussy and Ravel ushered in the century, and later Les Six, Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky—along with jazz and dance music—redefined timbre, pulse and form; in the shadows, music wounded by crisis and occupation also grew.

This session traces those correspondences back to 1945, when the city reinvented itself once again.

Talk by Carlos Gutiérrez Cajaraville