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Picasso's Guernica: History, Tranformations, Meanings (California Studies in the History of Art, No 26)
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by Herschel B. Chipp
Sales Rank: 2177030
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Cover Type: Paperback with 328 pages
Published by: University of California Press January 18, 1993
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0520079477
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0520079472
Book Dimensions:
11 x 9 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
From Library Journal
These authors add to the mass of writing about Picasso's mural Guernica , each contributing new ideas from different perspectives. An American authority on Picasso who was instrumental in the return of Guernica to Spain after its 40-year "exile," Chipp has written a book thorough in research and rich in style. The chronological development of the painting is only a part of this broad historical, political, and artistic documentary. In contrast, Fisch limits his analysis to rigid interpretations. By carefully looking at the similarities to Picasso's former works and those of his artistic predecessors, who also painted of war and destruction, Fisch methodically isolates each facet of the painting. He argues for a new interpretation of the figure of the angel bearing light, often felt to be misunderstood by art critics. The arrangement of the plates in each book underscores the texts well. The photographs in Chipp's book also give a pictorial account of the times and events that helped shape Picasso's most important work.
- Suzanne J. Peterson, SUNY at Cortland
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Perhaps no twentieth-century painting has captured the cruel effects of war as powerfully as Picasso's Guernica. For the first time we can understand the entire history of Guernica both as an artistic work and a document of the conflicting forces that shook the world during the 1930s. This rich account not only traces the extraordinary creation of the painting but also establishes the context in which the bombing took place and the form in which the news of it reached Picasso.
As Herschel Chipp demonstrates in his skilled analysis, Picasso initially pursued an idea for this work that had nothing to do with the struggle in Spain. When republican emissaries asked him to paint a large mural for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition, they left the subject to him. He began by sketching out a subject that had long interested him: the artist and his model in the studio, working together and engaging in amorous play.
Only after the German Condor Legion bombed the Spanish town of Guernica did Picasso turn from this highly personal theme to one that evoked the anguish of those who had endured the attack. But even as he turned to the theme of suffering, Picasso sought characters for his painting in figures familiar in his art: the women in his life and the animals, horse and bull, that fought in the corrida.
Once the bombing had begun to work on his imagination, Picasso finished Guernica in only twenty-five days. As Professor Chipp guides us through the day-by-day development of Picasso's masterpiece, he vividly conveys Picasso's transformation of all his materials into a wrenching cry against the suffering of war.
Finally, the work describes the odyssey of Picasso's canvas from its first display in the Spanish pavilion to its eventual arrival in Spain. Javier Tusell Gómez, the former director general of fine arts in Spain, contributes a chapter on the delicate negotiations that preceded the transfer of Guernica to Spain and the preparation at the Prado of a secure place to display the work.
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