Antonia Mercé, "LaArgentina"

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Ninotchka Bennahum. Antonia Mercé, "LaArgentina"

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ANTONIA MERCÉ

Argentina posing in Paris for photographer Madame d’Ora, 1928.

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At that time, the Spanish saw themselves as separate from the rest of Europe. The southern regions of Spain—what Garcia Lorca referred to as the three-cornered hat of Seville, Granada, and Cordoba—had been ruled by moderate and fundamentalist Islamic caliphs from North Africa during the Middle Ages from 711 to the last in Granada, in 1492. The Spanish Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, reconquered a new, all-Catholic, white Spain. Nevertheless, the vast architectural and cultural influence of the eight-hundred-year presence of the Moors and Jews—of Mozarabic culture—dominates the Spanish landscape even into the twentieth century. (The Jews, who entered Spain as Roman slaves and merchants in 450 B.C.E., and the Moors inscribed an oriental socioeconomic and political outlook on Andalusia—a non-Western approach to social behavior and artistic creation that, though long gone, still continues to influence southern Spain today.

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