Barcelona 1900
Teresa-M. Sala (Ed.)
Barcelona is well known as a center of contemporary art and architecture, but that prominence owes much to the creative outpouring it witnessed at the dawn of the twentieth century, when it was known as the "rose of fire." The physical city was transformed by the civil engineer Ildefonso Cerdà and the architects Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech. As Barcelona changed around them, modernist artists including Pablo Picasso, Isidre Nonell, and Ramon Casas produced work fueled by and focused on political and humanitarian concerns.
Barcelona 1900 portrays the artistic, cultural, social, and political history of the city at this crucial ... Read more
Accompanied by a wealth of historical and contemporary photographs of the cityscape, this book—which also serves as the catalog for a landmark exhibition of the same name organized by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam—invites the reader to promenade along the most remarkable spots in the city, from Las Ramblas, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and the Palau de la Musica; to Els Quartes Gats, the cafe where Picasso and his friends met; and Parc Güell and Gaudí's Sagrada Familia.
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