Guernica
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One of the reasons I enjoy being part of a group on Goodreads is that I actually read books that I otherwise wouldn't have chosen to read. I chose this book to cover my July Travel Read to Spain. As I did the Audible version it took me much longer to complete as I typically listen while driving or working in the garden. Also, I found it a bit slow to get into and that it tended to mump around frequently from character to character which made it hard to follow at times.
Guernica, By Dave Boling | The Independent | The Independent Guernica, By Dave Boling | The Independent | The Independent
I first met him in 1973 and he almost adopted me. My father was dead and we ended up with a very strong personal relationship and I used to go and visit him a lot. I also have a huge collection on the Spanish Civil War and some of the jewels in my collection were given to me by him.Ian Gibson later wrote the great biography of Lorca, which is another wonderful book. This book on the death of Lorca was his first and was published by a Spanish exiled publishing house in Paris in 1971 and won a lot of international prizes. As a literature student Ian had gone to Granada to do a thesis about Lorca’s poetry. And he got hooked on the whole mystery of his death and what had happened and so produced this beautifully written book. It was such an international success that it then came out in English. With the Spanish republic in desperate straits, though, Picasso was adamant that the painting travel only for fundraising purposes—despite the uninspiring results in Britain. In the end, he agreed to let Barr have Guernica, but insisted that it go first to the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign, an American advocacy group, to be used in a fundraising tour of four American cities. When I began this novel I expected it to be really sad and it is very sad but it also is remarkably funny and heartwarming. Above all , it is a book very much about love and loss and finding strength to move on when everything you loved and lived for has been destroyed by the cruelest and most senseless of acts you can imagine. (And an introduction to the Basque language thrown in for free.) Becht-Jördens, Gereon: Picassos Guernica als kunsttheoretisches Programm. In: Becht-Jördens, Gereon and Wehmeier, (In German) Peter M.: Picasso und die christliche Ikonographie. Mutterbeziehung und künstlerische Position. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2003, S. 209–237 ISBN 3-496-01272-2 The 1937 firebombing of the Basque town of Guernica is the central event of this ambitious first novel from Seattle-based journalist Boling.
Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
Witham, Larry (2013). Picasso and the chess player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the battle for the soul of modern art. Hanover; London: University Press of New England. ISBN 9781611682533 Greenberg, Clement (1993). The Collected Essays and Criticism; Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957–1969. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226306240 It belongs in any list of important books on the Spanish Civil War. . . . However, it would certainly not be there as a reliable analysis of the broader politics of the war. . . . Orwell’s brief time in Spain has given succor to those who wish to claim, either from the far Left or the far Right that the defeat of the Spanish Republic was somehow more the responsibility of Stalin than of Franco, Hitler, Mussolini or Neville Chamberlain.
I do not think this is a spoiler, but I am going to share something from the end of the book, so if you're of the type that doesn't want to know ANYTHING, then I will warn: Before we talk about your five books, tell us about what first got you interested in the Spanish Civil War. This was one of those reads that don’t strike a chord in me. I’m giving the novel 3.5 stars. There’s nothing wrong with the writing. On the whole, the storytelling is skillfully executed, with sympathetic characters and descriptive setting, evoking sense of place and time. The description of the war scenes and aftermath in the last third of the book is particularly piquant. The Spanish and Basque governments hated the mural. President José Antonio Aguirre snubbed Picasso’s offer to give the work to the Basque people; Ucelay, the Basque painter, called it “one of the poorest things ever produced in the world,” adding that Picasso was just “shitting on Gernika.” Several Spanish officials suggested taking it down and replacing it with a different work altogether. Buñuel, a notorious radical in his own right, found it so unpleasant that he said he “would be delighted to blow up the painting.”
Guernica by Dave Boling | Goodreads Guernica by Dave Boling | Goodreads
One can hardly consider the bloody tragedy of Guernica, nearly eighty years ago and which some say was the debut of modern warfare, without also thinking of other instances of faceless bombing and destruction throughout the world. Here Boling gives faces to the aggressors and the victims.Painted in 1937, this monumental artwork is both a synthesis of the plastic research conducted by Picasso for 40 years and a popular icon. Exhibited, replicated all over the world, it has been at the same time an anti-franco, an anti-fascist and a pacific symbol. It is also an abundantly quoted, commented and taken up artwork, theorized by art historians and artists. See also: Bombing of Guernica; Spanish Civil War; and Spanish Civil War, 1937 Bombing of 26 April 1937 [ edit ] Guernica in ruins, 1937
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