10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUERNICA»
Discover the use of
Guernica in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Guernica and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Patterson explores how modern men and women respond to the threat of new warfare with new capacities for imagining aggression and death. This is an unflinching history of the locationless terror that so many people feel today.
History and fiction merge seamlessly in this beautiful novel about the resilience of family, love, and tradition in the face of hardship.
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Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
This tale of passion and politics shows the transformation of this work of art into an icon of many meanings, up to its long contested but eventually triumphant return to Spain in 1981.
Gijs van Hensbergen, 2013
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And Picasso Painted
Guernica
This outstanding book begins with the doves young Pablo painted with his father when he was only seven, then shows us his later passions for harlequins and street people, bulls and minotaurs, new ways of seeing and new ways of rendering ...
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Telegram from
Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George ...
His report pointed the finger at secret Nazi involvement in the devastating aerial attack. It was the lead story in both The Times and the New York Times, and became the most controversial dispatch of the Spanish Civil War.
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Guernica and Other Poems
These poems reflect on the nature of writing in the actual process of its production, which lends this work great density and acuity.
Carlos Deditoroliviera, 2004
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Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to
Guernica
This work displaces biographical and psychological treatments of the artist from the past several decades, rendering them obsolete--and it forever changes art history in its present disposition."--Rosalind E. Krauss, Columbia University
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The
Guernica Bull: Studies in the Classical Tradition in the ...
From the echoes of Plato's dialogues at the heart of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice to the retelling of the story of Harmodius and Aristogiton--a story with grim parallels to Nazi Germany--in Marguerite Yourcenar's Léna, these modern works ...
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The Day
Guernica Died: the Crucible of Wwii
How and why the cultural and religious capital of the Basque people was reduced to rubble by the Nazi Condor Legion air force. The first and only book to have interviewed ALL survivours of the blitzkrieg and those who launched it.
Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts, 2011
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International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe
Site Office: Turismo Bulegoa Artekale, 8-E 48300 Guernica, Vizcaya Spain (94)
6255892 When most people hear the word Guernica, they think of the famous
painting by Pablo Picasso. While that painting may be this little village's claim to ...
Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda, 1995
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUERNICA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Guernica is used in the context of the following news items.
Bungay's 'The Most Dangerous Enemy': A fine analysis of …
He argues that the Spanish Civil War, and especially the bombing of Guernica, had given the German air force somewhat of inflated reputation. «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
The Greek Deal From Germany - Reading Between the Lines …
And we might view Greece as a sort of an experiment in a new form of warfare and ruthlessness, as were Guernica, Warsaw, and Lidice. «The Market Oracle, Jul 15»
Art brings understanding of war
One of the best examples of that was Picasso's Guernica, one of the most moving anti-war pictures of all time. Dr Kelly said it was in Somalia ... «Bega District News, Jul 15»
LISTEN: Andrew Johnson On Life's Beautiful Monotony
His essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, Guernica Daily, Killing the Buddha, MAKE, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. All of our ... «KCUR, Jul 15»
Two suspected wanted ETA members charged in France
A municipal worker paints over graffiti reading "ETA, The People Are With You" in Guernica October 21, 2011. REUTERS/Vincent West. «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
Legendary actor Omar Sharif dies at 83
... 2003 experience that concluded with Sharif head-butting a police officer -- and told Guernica magazine in 1996 that he lived a "sedate" life. «KCCI Des Moines, Jul 15»
World's most expensive painting arrives in Madrid art gallery
“This is not the most valuable painting in this museum. I think Guernica is definitely worth more than this painting,” said trust spokesman and art ... «Olive Press, Jul 15»
Lines, color and war: Painting as a form of healing
She wants viewers to see a deeper story, and was inspired, she said, by Pablo Picasso's “Guernica,” Francisco Goya's “The Disasters of War,” ... «Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
This Afghan Artist Believes The Creative Powers Of Art Can Help …
It's like Pablo Picasso's “Guernica.” It's also full of gray and the subject is war and struggle but you can still see the beauty in that. And I'm doing ... «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»
TV review Picasso - Portillo's peculiar perspective
Beautifully crafted to demonstrate the brutality of war, Guernica depicts the terrible blanket bombing of the Basque town of that name by the ... «Socialist Party, Jul 15»
