the man who killed don quixote will be released in uk on 1 june 2018.
the man who killed don quixote will be released in uk on 1 june 2018.
when will the man who killed don quixote be released in uk?
1 june 2018
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between 1954 and 1955 lorenzo domínguez started and completed the series of drawings he called "via crucis of don quixote". these drawings on the subject of don quixote's falls are an aesthetic transposition of twenty four physical and symbolic falls suffered by cervantes' literary hero. the series consists of thirty-two drawings, with different versions and studies for some of the falls. lorenzo domínguez was always attracted by this spanish novel, both as reading matter and subject of meditation, and as an aesthetic paradigm. in the figure of the knight-errant, the artist finds everlasting symbols. his twenty-four physical falls (perhaps twenty-four spiritual triumphs) are varied in nature. some are caused by cruelty or vulgarity: in "encounter with servility" don quixote finds some merchants and is beaten by a mule keeper; in "encounter with brutality" he is beaten by a goat shepherd; "sadism" refers to a passage in the novel when the dukes, as a cruel joke, free a bag full of angry cats, and the animals attack and injure don quixote; in "strangling of the hand" maritornes mocks him and lets him hang from a window for an entire night; and in "the abuse of genius", don quixote is run over by a herd of swine. there are falls due to ingratitude, like "the spoliation", where don quixote, after freeing the galley prisoners, is robbed by them; or "sancho's betrayal", where he is beaten by sancho panza; or "encounter with friendship", where don quixote is knocked down by his friend bachelor sansón carrasco in disguise as the knight of the white moon. in "encounter with lust", a muleteer in love with maritornes hits don quixote, causing him to fall. sometimes it is fantasy itself that falls through, pulling don quixote along; and thus, there is a "first shipwreck of fantasy", a depiction of the hero's catastrophic trip in the enchanted ship; and a "second shipwreck of fantasy", about another catastrophic trip on a flying horse. there are falls caused by madness: by poetic madness in "crucifixion in madness", where don quixote appears on the cross of the allegorical windmill; and by the pathological madness of cardenio in "encounter with insanity". for today's observer this via crucis offers some interesting and polemic falls, like "censorship", where don quixote is forced by some of his most prominent neighbors -the priest and the barber- to return to his village, muzzled and in a cage; or like "encounter with power", where don quixote falls from his horse, overwhelmed at the sight of the powerful aristocratic figures of the duke and his wife. falls of definite political nature are "the civil war", and "horror of the future". in the first drawing, spain fights against spain, and don quixote, a symbol of spain, is attacked and run over by a herd of bulls, another symbol of spain. in the second drawing, there is a deliberate anachronism: don quixote falls at the doors of barcelona, as if hit by a premonition of the spanish civil war. in the drawing, lorenzo domínguez's sculpture "barcelona" appears as homage to the victims of bombings. in the last fall, "crucifixion in health", the religious dimension of don quixote, already suggested in "crucifixion in madness", becomes clearer. in this final fall, the spanish knight stops being don quixote. in this drawing, cervantes' character appears at the center, and to his right and left appear the housekeeper and the niece, mimicking the female figures of the christian crucifixion. upon breaking the spear, the knight's arms become the arms of a cross. don quixote dies on that cross, and only alonso quijano is left behind. lorenzo domínguez intended to use the drawings of the "via crucis of don quixote" to illustrate a special edition of cervantes' novel, a project that he never abandoned, not even during his stay in easter island. between 1949 and 1956, some of the drawings about don quixote's falls developed into large embossed metal plates.
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