Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
Entry/Object ID
2014.001.094
Description
GUERNICA relates the powerful story of Picasso's 1937 masterpiece, a painting that from its birth of of war and violence became known worldwide as a symbolic cry for peace. The acclaimed biographer of Gaudi traces the iconic painting's beginnings amid the Spanish Civil War through its use as a weapon in the propaganda battle against Fascism, through the years when it became the nucleus of the Museum of Modern Art's collection in New York, to its role as a symbol of reconciliation when it return to Spain after the death of Franco.
