Guernica
The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
by Gijs van Hensbergen
384 pages· 2005· ISBN 9781582346069
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A study of Pablo Picasso's seminal painting Guernica describes how a work of art was transformed into an important cultural and political icon, tracing the painting's history from its origins amid the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, its use as a propaganda weapon against fascism, its odyssey to MOMA in New York, and its return to Spain after Franco's death. 10,000 first printing.
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