A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the
most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as
part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had
already accepted a commission in 1937 to create a work for the
Spanish Republican Pavilion at the Paris World Fair when news
arrived of the assault by the German Condor Legion on the
undefended Basque town of Guernica, in which hundreds of civilians
died. James Attlee offers an illuminating account of the genesis,
creation and many-stranded afterlife of Picasso's Guernica. He
explores the historical context from which it sprang; the artistic
influences that informed its execution; the critical responses that
it elicited; its journeyings across Europe and America in the late
1930s; its post-war adoption by new generations of anti-war
protestors; and its eventual return to Spain following the death of
Franco.
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