Reading Guernica as a comic positions the painting not as a lofty work of fine art, but as a public narrative of violence.
The artist thus hopes to "suggest" the chaos and shock of disaster, the destruction of mind and spirit that takes place in such a catastrophe as the air raid on Guernica and, above all ...
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) must have been driven by a sense of urgency to paint "Guernica," the theme of which was the indiscriminate bombing of the titular town by German forces in 1937.
Having spent much of the past decade researching my book "Picasso the Foreigner," I was reminded by this turmoil and devastation of the artist’s monumental masterpiece, "Guernica." In the spring ...
The story is one of violence, trauma, and destruction – with the tiny hope of the glowing lamp. Reading Guernica as a comic positions the painting not as a lofty work of fine art, but as a publi ...
The story is one of violence, trauma, and destruction – with the tiny hope of the glowing lamp. Reading Guernica as a comic positions the painting not as a lofty work of fine art, but as a public ...
The German Luftwaffe’s bombing of Guernica acted as an example of the military strategy that would be used in World War II. The decision led to the resignation of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
(JTA) – The editor-in-chief of the prestigious literary magazine Guernica whose decision to publish an Israeli writer’s essay about the war in Gaza last month led to the mass resignation of ...