Juan Muñoz: The Politics of Silence
Mark Stuart-SmithJuan Muñoz: The Politics of Silence is an analysis and interpretation of Muñoz’s art in the sociopolitical context of the transition to democracy in Spain. The subtitle – The Politics of Silence – alludes to the book’s two main, interwoven strands: firstly, an argument about the ways in which the work is structured by silences; and secondly, an exploration of the silences of recent Spanish political history. Dr Mari Paz Balibrea is Reader in Spanish Cultural Studies at
the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication at Birkbeck (University
of London). Her research focuses on the political role of culture in
contemporary Spain, and the imaginary of the Spanish exile. Her books include En la tierra baldía. Manuel
Vázquez Montalbán y la izquierda española en la postmodernidad (1999), Tiempo de exilio.
Una mirada crítica a la modernidad española desde el pensamiento republicano en
el exilio (2007) and The Global Cultural Capital: Addressing
the Citizen and Producing the City in Barcelona (2017). She was
coordinator for Líneas de fuga. Hacia otra historiografía cultural del
exilio republicano español (2017).