Guernica : the biography of a twentieth-century icon / Gijs van Hensbergen.
"Of all the great paintings in the world, Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells the story of Picasso's masterpiece from its origin in the destruction of the Basque town of Gernika in the Spanish Civil War,...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2004.
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| Summary: | "Of all the great paintings in the world, Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells the story of Picasso's masterpiece from its origin in the destruction of the Basque town of Gernika in the Spanish Civil War, through its time as a weapon in the propaganda battle against Fascism, and its later role both as the nucleus of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and as the detonator for the Big Band of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s, to its long-contested but eventually triumphant return to Spain in 1981."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 373 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of col. plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0747549389 9780747549383 |