Nova Ibèria

Nova Ibèria
CategoriesPropaganda magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FoundedJanuary 1937
Final issueMarch 1937
CountrySpain
Based inBarcelona
LanguageCatalan
ISSN1887-7753
OCLC779857779

Nova Ibèria (Catalan: New Iberia) was a monthly illustrated propaganda magazine which was published in Barcelona, Spain, in 1937 during the civil war. Its subtitle was Revue mensuelle illustrée (Catalan: Illustrated monthly magazine).[1]

History and profile

Nova Ibèria was established by the Commission for Propaganda of the Generalitat of Catalonia in Barcelona in 1937.[1][2] The first issue of the magazine appeared in January that year.[1] The magazine was a propaganda publication and was started during the civil war to disseminate news and reports about the activities of the Republican Catalan forces.[1] It was published by the Propaganda Commissariat in large format in Catalan, but also featured articles written in French and English.[3][4] The magazine also had a Spanish sister magazine.[3]

Nova Ibèria employed the photographs and posters to support Republican forces based in Catalonia.[4] Josep Sala and Margaret Michaelis, a Polish-Jewish photographer, were among the staff of the magazine.[5][6] The Catalan propaganda secretary, Jaume Miravitlles, published articles in the magazine.[2]

Nova Ibèria came out monthly until its closure in March 1937 and produced a total of four issues during its run.[1] The last issue of Nova Ibèria was a double issue.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Nova Iberia: revue mensuelle illustrée (1937)" (in Spanish). Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b Carl-Henrik Bjerström (2021). "A Respectable Revolution: Republican Cultural Mobilisation during the Spanish Civil War". Cultural and Social History. 18 (1): 104–105. doi:10.1080/14780038.2021.1886388.
  3. ^ a b "Revista "Nova Iberia" (Ed. en català)". datos.bne.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b Jordana Mendelson (2015). "Beautiful Contradictions: News Pictures and Modern Magazines". In Jason E. Hill; Vanessa R. Schwartz (eds.). Getting the Picture. The Visual Culture of the News. London: Routledge. pp. 155, 158. doi:10.4324/9781003103547. ISBN 9781003103547.
  5. ^ Jo Labanyi (2002). "The Politics of the Everyday and the Eternity of Ruins: Two Women Photographers in Republican Spain (Margaret Michaelis 1933-37, Kati Horna 1937-38)". In Charles Burdett; Derek Duncan (eds.). Cultural Encounters: European Travel Writing in the 1930s. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-57181-810-2.
  6. ^ Jordana Mendelson (2003). "Architecture, Photography and (Gendered) Modernities in 1930s Barcelona". Modernism/modernity. 10 (1): 143. doi:10.1353/mod.2003.0018.
  7. ^ Avelina Miquel Lara; Francisca Comas Rubí (2017). "La revista Nova Iberia. Fotografía, educación propaganda durante la Guerra Civil". In Ana María Badanelli Rubio; et al. (eds.). Imágenes, discursos y textos en Historia de la Educación Retos metodológicos actuales (in Spanish). Madrid: Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá. ISBN 978-84-88754-74-5.