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Overview"Cristobal Hara was born into a Spanish colonial family in 1946; his German mother died shortly after his birth and he spent his early childhood in the Philippines and in the USA. When he was eight years old, he was sent to a religious boarding school in provincial Spain and found himself locked into a world of perverse religiosity and sexual repression, coupled with violence and corporal punishment. This experience occurred during the middle years of the long Franco dictatorship and, although perhaps particularly traumatic to an outsider, was not uncommon to Spaniards of his generation. Working with the wild horses of northern Spain nearly half a century later, he strongly identified with the mixture of vulnerability and rebelliousness of the ponies; the dust, the smells, the general roughness and coercion made him relive the childhood experience. In Autobiography, the second volume of a trilogy (following ""An Imaginary Spaniard"", 2004), Cristobal Hara uses images taken in contemporary Spain and filters them through the emotional memories of his childhood. The result digs deep into Spanish culture and into the cultural background of his generation." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cristobal Hara , Els BarentsPublisher: Steidl Publishers Imprint: Steidl Verlag Edition: illustrated edition Dimensions: Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9783865214720ISBN 10: 386521472 Pages: 96 Publication Date: 20 August 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |