COMUNICACIÓN Y PRENSA

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the appearance of Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife, the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife and the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciónes Culturales (SECC), attached to the Spanish Ministry of Culture, have published a facsimile edition of the two only issues that existed of the magazine, as well as of the humorous supplement Pavo, all together promoted by Federico García Lorca and published in this city in March 1928.
The facsimile edition, with the collaboration of the Fundación Federico García Lorca and the supervision of the Residencia de Estudiantes, has been realized trying to respect the characteristics of the original edition observed in the copies preserved in the collection of Luis Cernuda that since 1992 is part of the archives of the institution mentioned above.
 
The title of the magazine comes from the rooster (sp: gallo) with Nasrid coat of arms and sword used as a logo in the local journal El defensor de Granada and whose letterhead for the papers of the magazine was drawn by Salvador Dalí and handwritten by Federico García Lorca. Gallo was born in a literary milieu characterized by the awakening of the poetic journals related to the Generation of ’27.
Despite such a short life, in the magazine coexist several of the most interesting currents of arguments of the Literature and Plastic Arts of the moment, which agreed in claiming a New Art for their time, therefore the two issues bear witness to the controversial Spanish Avant-garde.