Du Modernisme à Joan Miró : la culture urbaine à Barcelone

• Main Author: Georges Serra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université du Sud Toulon-Var 1996-12-01
• Series: Babel : Littératures Plurielles
• Subjects: Barcelona; catalanity; town; modernism; Mediterranean Sea
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/babel/3074

The town is a language, Roland Barthes wrote. The architectural and urbanistic language of Barcelona is that of a search for a cultural identity. It refuses only kind of imitation, and finds the elements of its expression in the Catalan past and/or Mediterranean imagery. Its objective is to emphasize Catalanity in spite of the standardization trends introduced by the new global economy. The search for an identity crops up in the literary image of Barcelona, in art, and in the most daring aspects of contemporary urban creations.