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Guernica : the biography of a twentieth-century icon / Gijs van Hensbergen.
Fine Arts Library ND553.P5 A65385 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Hensbergen, Gijs.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973. Guernica.
- Picasso, Pablo.
- Art--Political aspects.
- History.
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Art and the war.
- Spain.
- Art--Political aspects--Spain--History--20th century.
- Art.
- Genre:
- Art and the war.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 373 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, [2004]
- Summary:
- Of all the great paintings in the world, the story of Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" may tell more about the last century's history than any other. The acclaimed biographer of Gaudi explores the life of Picasso's key cultural icon from its birth to the present day.
- Contents:
- The nightmare made real
- A silent requiem
- Homer at the whitelchapel
- To the new world
- The death of Paris
- The big bang
- Reds under the beds
- The silent resistance
- Operación retorno
- The homecoming
- The final journey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-353) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1582341249
- OCLC:
- 55885303
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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