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Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso's Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. In this absorbing and revealing book, Gijs van Hensbergen tells the story of this masterpiece. 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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‘A dramatic story with all the twists and turns of a political thriller, all the danger of an action adventure’ -- Catriona Black, Sunday Herald
‘Enthralling ... This is high-action drama ... Van Hensbergen has treated an extraordinary subject admirably’ -- Adam Hopkins, Evening Standard
‘This history of a painting is an astonishing achievement, a cornucopia of startlingly original insights’ -- Paul Preston, author of Franco: A Biography, A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War and Juan Carlos
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- PublisherBloomsbury Paperbacks
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0747568731
- ISBN 13 9780747568735
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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