Abstract
<jats:p>This book includes a dozen essays, along with several editorial texts devoted to the intertextual coherence of the volume, such as the one you are reading now. On this occasion, the Claroscuros contributors weave together perspectives and subtle methodologies drawn from sociology, literary criticism, art history, cultural studies, and aesthetics, addressing the roles of comics and architecture, advertising and tourism, within the specific Spanish sociopolitical context. The way in which the universes of our physical or ideographic geographies are interconnected in turn shapes how broader cultural inputs relate to countercultural movements and pop art, with consequences for the configuration of identity and cooperative values. The result is a broad panorama in which readers can appreciate how culture does not operate through isolated or distant disciplines, but rather as a set of organically connected systems in which reciprocal inspiration plays a fundamental role. This is something both vernacular and evident to anyone who engages with culture and, moreover, highly explicit in the history of art.</jats:p>