by Roger Bartra, Pilar Pedraza · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484710684
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«El salvaje europeo» is the illustrated essay by Roger Bartra and Pilar Pedraza, published by Fundación Bancaja in 2004 (219 pages, in Spanish).
Catalog of the eponymous exhibition that explores the figure of the European savage: an ancient myth used to designate the strange inhabitants of other regions of the world, unrelated to the colonized natives of Africa or America. Through artworks and reflections, the book analyzes the representation of monsters and wild men and their cultural and historical significance.
Work curated by Pilar Pedraza and Roger Bartra, with contributions from the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and Fundación Bancaja.
For readers interested in art, anthropology and European cultural history.
Roger Bartra Murià is a Mexican sociologist and anthropologist. He is the son of the exiled Catalan writers Agustí Bartra and Anna Murià, who settled in Mexico after the defeat of the democratic forces in the Spanish Civil War. Roger Bartra is recognized as one of the most important contemporary social scientists in Latin America.
