num_pages: 384
description: Guernica relates the powerful story of Picasso's 1937 masterpiece, a painting that from its birth out of war and violence became known worldwide as a symbolic cry for peace. The acclaimed biographer of Gaudí 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 creation in New York, to its role as a symbol of reconciliation when it returned to Spain after the death of Franco, as democracy was reestablished.
language: English
title: Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
titlecomplete: Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
genres: History, World War II, Biography, Spain, Art History, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 126
publisher: Bloomsbury USA