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Barcelona
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A highly detailed and scholarly history of Barcelona, from the first settlement on the to the current thriving and modern city.
"Barcelona is an attempt at total history: Social, political , cultural, economic ¿ Hughes includes descriptions of buildings - and he is as good on the bony grandeur of Catalan gothic as he is on the bulbous undulations of Gaudi - analyses of poems, precise evocations of social conditions ¿ and accounts of extraordinary people ¿ His book abounds in virtuoso stylistic displays, impassioned, eloquent, delighted, angry, amused. There is an invigorating freshness and independence of judgement, an absence of clichés, an enlivening curiosity" - Patrick Taylor-Martin, Literary Review / "Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world ¿ in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a dazzling collage of Catalan peculiarities" - Frederic Raphael, Sunday Times
Weight | 0.469000 |
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Author | Robert Hughes |
Availability | IP |
Department | Travel Writing |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781860468247 |
Pages | 688 |
Published | 25/01/2001 |
Publisher | Harvill Press |
Section | Travel Writing: General |
Size Unfolded | 15x23cm |
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