History in a Shoebox: Photographs from the Spanish Civil War
History in a Shoebox: Photographs from the Spanish Civil War, Lleida 1936-1939 is presented by Wellesley’s Art and Spanish Departments with the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. The opening reception is September 27 at 5pm. The exhibition and related events are free and open to the public.
The exhibit features 20 photographs of unique images that were taken by Ramon Rius, a baker from Lleida, kept in a box, and recently passed on to his granddaughter. “For a citizen to have the pictures or even to be seen in them, after the Fascists won the war, could have meant an instantaneous death sentence,” notes curator Carlos Ramos, “especially since they portray images of the loyalists to the Republic.”
Ramon Rius documented church burnings, paramilitary forces, demonstrations in support of the Republic, and finally the fascists entering the town. (When German planes bombed the city, he took refuge in the countryside.) When democracy returned to Spain, after Franco's death in 1975, the unspoken attitude towards the memory of the war was to forget and to move on. It has been in later years, with democracy fully asserted in Spain and the 70th anniversary being celebrated this year, that the focus and the reevaluation of the war intensified.
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Monday – Thursday 8:15am to 11pm;
Friday 8:15am to 7pm;
Saturday 12noon – 5pm;
Sunday 12noon – 11pm
The Jewett Art Center is located on the Wellesley College campus at 106 Central Street in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Admission and parking are free.
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Monday – Thursday 8:15am to 11pm; Friday 8:15am to 7pm; Saturday 12noon – 5pm; Sunday 12noon – 11pm
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FREE
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106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA, 02481 map
Phone: 781 283 2034
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