''Bética'' was an illustrated cultural magazine which existed between 1913 and 1917. It was headquartered in

Seville Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, ...

, Spain.

History and profile

''Bética'' was launched in Seville in November 1913 as a biweekly magazine. The magazine was affiliated with the Centros Andaluces. Later its frequency was switched to monthly. The magazine covered literary and cultural work and adopted a

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

and

art nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

approach. It also supported regionalism for

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. It folded in 1917.

Staff and contributors

Félix Sánchez-Blanco was the director of ''Bética'' whose deputy was Félix Sánchez-Blanco y Pardo. The poet Felipe Cortines y Murube also served in the magazine. Santiago Martínez y Martín was its chief artistic editor and Javier Lasso de la Vega its chief literary editor. Major contributors included Isidro de las Cagigas, Francisco Rodríguez Marín, Mario Méndez Bejarano,

Quintero brothers Serafín Álvarez Quintero (March 26, 1871 – April 12, 1938) and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (January 20, 1873 – June 14, 1944) were Spanish dramatists. Biography Quintero brothers, photograph by Kaulak Born in Utrera, Seville Province in ...

, Ricardo de León, Salvador Rueda, Gabriel Maura, Armando Palacio Valdés, Francisco Cambó, Joaquín Hazañas, Ángel María Camacho, Joaquín González Verger and Alejandro Guichot.

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