Guernica : the biography of a twentieth-century icon / Gijs van Hensbergen.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2005.Description: 373 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780747568735:
- 0747568731
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973. Guernica
- Painting, Spanish -- 20th century
- Painters -- Spain
- Artists -- Spain -- Biography
- Art and Design
- Painting & paintings
- Individual artists, art monographs
- Spain
- History of art
- History
- Fine arts: treatments & subjects
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Art and the War
- 759.606
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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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