Picasso's Guernica: History, Tranformations, Meanings

by Herschel B. Chipp

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520079477
• ISBN13: 9780520079472
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 10.9"