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Guernica : the biography of a twentieth-century icon / Gijs van Hensbergen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2005.Description: 373 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780747568735:
  • 0747568731
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.606
Contents:
The nightmare made real -- A silent requiem -- Homer at the Whitechapel -- To the New World -- Death of Paris -- Big Bang -- Reds under the beds -- Silent resistance -- Operacion Retorno -- The homecoming -- The final journey.
Summary: Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso̕s Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. Starting with its origin in the destruction of the Basque town of Gernika in the Spanish Civil War, the painting is then used as a weapon in the propaganda battle against Fascism. Later it becomes the nucleus of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the detonator for the Big Bang of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s. This tale of passion and politics shows the transformation of this work of art into an icon of many meanings, up to its long contested but eventually triumphant return to Spain in 1981.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 759.606 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 48956
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 759.606 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 58703

CW808

Originally published: 2004.

CW123

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-353) and index.

The nightmare made real -- A silent requiem -- Homer at the Whitechapel -- To the New World -- Death of Paris -- Big Bang -- Reds under the beds -- Silent resistance -- Operacion Retorno -- The homecoming -- The final journey.

Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso̕s Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. Starting with its origin in the destruction of the Basque town of Gernika in the Spanish Civil War, the painting is then used as a weapon in the propaganda battle against Fascism. Later it becomes the nucleus of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the detonator for the Big Bang of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s. This tale of passion and politics shows the transformation of this work of art into an icon of many meanings, up to its long contested but eventually triumphant return to Spain in 1981.

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