The summer 2018 issue of F. La revista del Foment is now on sale. You can purchase it at The New Barcelona Post's online store.The more the acceleration of time manifests itself as a characteristic of the era, the more value the verification of memory should have. In this issue ofF. The Magazine of Foment, we intend to fit both comprehension systems in time. On the one hand, what does what happened in May 1968 represent in 2018? How to give new projection, for example, to the ideas of such an illustrious figure of the Enlightenment as Jovellanos was? And, on the other hand, if neuroscience is the grand dame of our time, where will its future revelations about the strange orders of minds and feelings lead us?
Between both shores, we perceive a disturbing present. The essayist Bob Riemen, interviewed by F. La Revista del Foment, lucidly describes it. In his essays and postulates, Riemen advocates for the return of a forgotten idea, the nobility of spirit. It is a will for civilization to which F. La Revista del Foment, as a magazine of ideas and culture, unreservedly adheres. This is the moment for a reunion with European values, with the continuity of great Western culture. Hence, as "Panorama," the visits to the house museums of four great painters: Sorolla, Leighton, Rusiñol, and Delacroix. They represent fidelity to an idea of art as a desire for greatness, from distinct conceptions that intertwine and generate the creative splendor and vital style that can be seen in their house museums, as proof – even if it is not typical of postmodern aesthetics – of what art achieves as a vocation.
After the "Letter from Reykjavik," a thriving city, the interview with historian José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec is also a commitment to an intelligent reunion with the past. The same understanding runs through the pages of "Artes & Co" and "De autor." From Voltaire to Giorgio Bassani, the desire to live as a savoir faire of intuitions and knowledge; the profound transitions in Poland, which celebrates one hundred years of the recovery of its independence in 1918; the remote majesty of Mesopotamia; the finesse of Claude Débussy and, as a pressing present, the evolution of a city like Culiacán, vital despite narcoviolence, to end by asking ourselves to what extent tweets and retweets influence the existential forms of a world that is groping in the dark for a balance between classical humanism and technoscience.
Summary
Panorama 10. The Sorolla house museum, painter of the air, by Ignacio Vidal-Folch 14. The Cau Ferrat of Santiago Rusiñol in Sitges, by Artur Ramon 18. A captaincy of taste: Leighton House, by Ignacio Peyró 22. Delacroix's house, by Almudena Blasco Vallés
Dossier 28. The gregarious evil according to Rob Riemen, by Luis Torras
Topics of tomorrow 40. Neurohorizons, by Adolf Tobeña 46. The double legacy of 1968, by Ramón González Férriz 50. History, and melancholy, of a hope, by Ponç Puigdevall
Letter from Reykjavík 56. Reykjavík: a 'western' city near the polar circle, by Anna Ballbona
arts&Co. 64. Interview. José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec: The historian against the current, by Sergi Doria 68. Literature. From the garden of delights, by Vicenç Pagès Jordà 70. Music. Monsieur Croche, a musical dialogue, by Valèria Gaillard 72. Ephemerides. 1918–1943: 25 years change the history of Poland, by Josep Maria de Sagarra Àngel 74. Civilizations. From Gilgamesh to Jacob, by Jesús García Recio 76. Geographies. Culiacán, between narcos and rivers, by Jordi Canal 78. Author's pick. The digital tattoo, by Llucia Ramis
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