A richly illustrated catalog, with biography, of artist Julio González. The sculptures of Julio González (1876‿1942) were shown at MoMA in 1956, and our understanding of his influence on modern art has grown steadily since. This lavishly illustrated book offers a new, highly nuanced account of González‿s life, work, and legacy. Beginning with González‿s complex family relationships, Juan José Lahuerta explores the tensions involved as González...
¿Cuál es el verdadero paisaje propuesto por las vanguardias europeas de los veinte? Para reconocerlo tal vez fuera bueno echar una ojeada a su "contrafigura": por un lado, los fondos de las pinturas de aquellos artistas al margen de los "ismos", por otro, la perplejidad de los arquitectos "periféricos" ante su propia obra.
This beautifully illustrated book, the catalog for an exhibition on view at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona and coorganized with the Picasso Museum in Paris, explores important affinities between Picasso and Romanesque art. Using two key moments as starting points, Juan José Lahuerta and Emilia Philippot first discuss the summer of 1906, when Picasso stayed in the village of Gòsol in the Catalan Pyrenees, and then turn to ...
Religious subject matter is not central in 20th century art. One might therefore suspect that, for the avantgarde, the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) would have eclipsed religion altogether. However, as Juan José Lahuerta argues in this book, the war caused a considerable revival of certain themes of religious art. In particular, it intensified Pablo Picasso's lifelong preoccupation with the subject of the Crucifixion. The work of the Swiss sur...
Features overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced-and plausible-conception of the world. This volume includes images tied to the history of twentieth-century architecture with anonymous graphic materials and pictures. It will redefine our concept of modernity.
When the Corbusian International Modern style, with its contempt for ornament, imposed itself on architecture, figures like Gaudi (1852-1926) were relegated to the sidelines. In this volume, Lahuerta situates Gaudi in his context and vindicates his fin-de-siecle bohemian modernity. Embodied in such powerful images as the equation of the spires of the Sagrada Familia with the flames rising from burning churches during the Tragic Week (1909), th...
This book Casa Batlló, takes us beyond its façade to reveal to us, with meticulous detail, the architects great creativity. It includes an essay
by Juan José Lahuerta and a study of the morphology of the building.
This book takes us beyond its façade to reveal to us, with meticulous detail, the architects great creativity. It includes an essay by Juan José Lahuerta and a study of the morphology of the building.
This book takes us beyond its façade to reveal to us, with meticulous detail, the architects great creativity. It includes an essay by Juan José Lahuerta and a study of the morphology of the building.
This book takes us beyond its façade to reveal to us, with meticulous detail, the architects great creativity. It includes an essay by Juan José Lahuerta and a study of the morphology of the building.