Cosmocazo

Cosmocazo (from "Cosmopolitan" and the -azo suffix of violent augmentation), also known as the cosmopolitan era, is the historiographic denomination given to the social, political and cultural movement that took place in Balisca as a result of decades of transculturation. By the mid-19th century there was an emergence of a cosmopolitan and permissive cultural consensus that drew from a diversity of communities, along with widespread adoption of the the concept of seny ("sense").

There was successful communal and cantonal cooperation towards engineering efforts to achieve a new language, and steady progress on systemic improvements throughout it's cities using iron and glass as the main building materials and density-oriented urban planning.

Its main form of expression was the adoption of the Baliscano language and "Cosmopolitano architecture". However it also encompassed many other arts, such as fashion, painting and sculpture, and especially the design and the decorative arts (cabinetmaking, carpentry, forged iron, ceramic tiles, ceramics, fashion, glass-making, silver and goldsmith work, etc.), which were particularly important, especially in their role as support to architecture. It was also a literary movement (poetry, fiction, drama).

Cosmopolitanism and cantonalism were important influences for those that were opposed to the displays of caesarism of President Michelangelo Valentino, and wanted Baliscan culture to be regarded as distinct from that of Latin European countries and Latin America. The tenure Valentino's successor, Josèp Bernat was fraught with growing radicalism, anarchism, the labor movement, and by Bernat's efforts to crush protests with violent force by regional militias in the Cantonal War. After three tumultuous years in office, Bernat (operating from Maracaju) abdicated on 8 June 1876, and fled to Brazil. The 1883 Confederal Convention would overwhelmingly consist of the Cantonalists, and the confederation was subsequently reorganized into cantons and communes, and the regions were abolished.

The new cantonalist regime established policies that tended toward a horizontal, anti-religious system of social democracy, including the separation of church and state, self-policing, the abolition of rent, the abolition of child labor, and the right of employees to take over an enterprise. Active (predominately Catholic) churches and religious schools declined substantially due to their prior support for the presidency of Bernat, in contrast with most communities which were more receptive to the cantonal cause. Feminist, socialist, communist and anarchist currents played important roles in the shaping of this new system.

The relatively large immigrant-descended population was were often economically marginalized and locked into relatively dangerous elicit means of survival until the emergence of railroads, trade unions, and universal education which strengthened the integration of rural Balisca in the late-1800s. Decentralization happened gradually, while the cantons came together in 1884 to establish the Association of the Baliscan Language (Baliscano: L'Asociación de la Llengua Balisca), which set to reconcile and standardize the emerging Alpujarran pidgin dialect into one standardized language, to be called Baliscano. In the process, the work of these linguists furthered the idea of a plurinationalist Balisca, based on the interdependence of the cosmopolitan communities that had come to the Baliscan archipelago. This was reflected in the motto of the the Reconstruction era administration; El se equivale ("They amount to the same").

Secular humanism and anti-clericalism witnessed surges in popularity during this time. Later, the idea of cosmopolitanism entered mainstream Baliscan society. Le Cosmopolitòpolis by tba greatly influenced national thought, furthering the idea of the new republic being a state of numerous ethnic groups and calling for historical reconciliation and opposition to sectarianism. This was enshrined in the Constitution of 1883, which defined Balisca as the first "cosmopolitan state". Also within the Constitution's articles was the recognition of indigenous sovereignty, environmental conservation and protections, the prohibition of religious schools, and sweeping land reforms.

Art

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  La Cimeira de les Naciones ("Summit of Nations") by Ximena Serrano (1888)
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  The Offering (1900) by Jacobo Al-Solaimán
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  Los Ferraters ("the Ironworkers") by Ander Abadía (1869)
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  Irmandat de Corsarios ("corsair brotherhood") by Oier Ballesteros (1893)
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  VV Salvatge (the "Steamboat Savage") by Oihan Gimeno (1878)
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  Vitacura, by Karim García (1858)
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  La mujer mozárabe ("the Mozarbic woman") by Estuarian painter Juan Ramón de Solís (1898)
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  La Salida ("The Departure") by Fátima al-Zahra (1878)
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  Apiaká by Yahya el Sabio (1872)
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  Algarveño andaluces ("Andalusian Algarvean") by Samara Al-Abbasi (1879)
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  El Oráculo Lucumí ("The Lucumí Oracle") by Oier Ballesteros (1889)
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  Woodblock print of the University of Uxiu, by Tikashi Yabu (1869)
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  La Tormenta se Aproxima ("The Gathering Storm") by Iñigo Rivera (1869)
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  SS Hesperides arriving in Alessandria (1914)
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  La Playa de Arcadia ("The Arcadian Beach") by Ander Abadía (1880)

Architecture

The architectural focus of this period was firstly on revivals and eclecticism, and later on the creation of a "cosmopolitano" approach, drawing from across the confederation.

The 1838 inauguration of Michelangelo Valentino and the new progressive Ani Federali also embraced this emerging "cosmopolitan style", and it rapidly rose in popularity. It is characterized by its eclecticism, because of the mix of decorative elements from various Old World styles, namely Neo-Mudéjar, Moorish Revival and Palazzo style, and widespread use of architectural ceramics and oriental motifs. The arrival of the arrival of new Modernisme to the Baliscan academic arena was relatively quick thanks to the emerging cultural and historical ties to the Mediterranean world, and heavily influenced the eventual development of the Nuevo Cosmopolitano style. During the later years of the 20th century, there was a substantial interest in Moorish Revival architecture.