selected leaves and ACI ID'ALLÀ: an artistic perspective of the news magazine SHEETS SELECTED Magazine (1902-1921)
In January 1902, the editorial Salvat brought to light the monthly magazine selected leaves with the caption " magazine for all. " He had a hundred pages and many other illustrations from photographs and drawings. This work of art and today part of the Library Salvat and was printed in type-setting editorial Salvat lithography in Barcelona. Alternating printing on coated paper and similar to other lower quality. This magazine had fixed columns, as eg Panorama section of Universal Pictures, Variety, Comedy Notes and Supplements, among others. Others were of a literary text (mostly novels), historical, scientific and general culture. There were a variety of topics that were discussed at length in generated, and its content is varied: folk customs, stories, travel, traditions, legends, natural history, information, artistic, scientific, artistic, historical, geographical, industrial, agricultural, commercial, varieties, universal outlook, policy notes, hobbies, artistic portraits and supplements. There was also a section devoted to information point in Spain and abroad.
All texts were accompanied by prints and drawings, many done in color. Also inserted some pictures. Throughout all the numbers had more than 1000 illustrations, lots of them in full color and beautiful. The quality of the prints was extraordinary and the space reserved for advertising amounted to 16 pages.
There are photographs, drawings, cartoons, cards, staves, postcards, posters, etc. and even included some headers decorated. The typeface was simple and elegant. Many of the authors who published in that year were highly recognized and important in English literature: Enrique Granados, Roberto de Palacio, Ricardo Palma, Ruben Dario, G. Martínez Sierra, Luciano Biart, Juan de Dios Peza, E. Contreras and Camargo, José Comas Solá, F. Navarro Ledesma, Eugenio Mascarenhas, M. Berg, James Baker, C. Schwarzkopf, Antonio García Llansó, Felipe Pedrell, Angel R. Chaves, F. Terrer Climent, José Echegaray, Alfonso Danvila, J. Agusty Menéndez, V. Salado Álvarez, Manuel Carretero, etc. Some of the outstanding illustrators were: Ramon Casas, Apelles Mestre, Bringa Méndez, F. Lix, A. Utrillo, E. Varela, Cabrinety, G. Camps DF Sarda Karicato, F. Sans Castano, FS Covisa, Argemí, L. Hitchcock, etc.
Finally, due to a change of course in-house corporate Salvat, the magazine disappeared in 1921.
D'ACI Journal D'BEYOND I (1918-1936)
After the First World War and the demise of the newspaper "La Il · lustració Catalana "came to light on January 10, 1918 the first issue of ACI D'ID'ALLÀ, the first major arts and current affairs magazine in Catalan European style on news and events of Catalan life. The first director between 1918 and 1919 was Josep Carner, within the Editorial Catalan regionalist project, Francesc Cambo. From 1919 and until 1924 the leadership passed to Ignasi M. Folch i Torres, and between 1924 to 1936 was the publication by the editor Antoni and journalist Llausàs Lopez Carles Soldevila. Under the direction of this, the magazine became an instrument of civility proposals diffuser and social behavior, aimed at the bourgeoisie and the layers off of Barcelona and the Catalan city, with a claim and infuse teaching style patina and good tone (rather snobbish) between the circles leaders of the country. With this operation, intended Soldevila also bring these social sectors to the field of Catalan cultural and political. Monthly, writing and administration Catalònia placed in the Library (located on Ronda Sant Pere with Paseo de Gracia), one of the great factories of Noucentisme, and adopted from the year 1925 a bigger and better quality. From the spring of 1932, the magazine went from monthly to quarterly. The third issue became a careful presentation luxurious publication, in the opinion of many, one of the best edited of the world. Without waiving the foregoing objectives, some numbers of collaborations incorporating avant-garde magazine, for the Winter of 1934, resulted in the most spectacular journalistic piece in the entire history of the Catalan press. Unfortunately, the magazine D'ACI ID'ALLÀ finally disappeared with the outbreak of the Civil War.
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