Robert Hughes

Barcelona

"This will certainly become the standard book on Barcelona – a superb achievement and a great pleasure to read." Cólm Toibín

Klappentext:

Before Spain there was Catalunya, a thriving maritime empire with its own language and Barcelona as its capital, last bastion of resistance to Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Exploring 2000 years of the city's history, Robert Hughes takes us down the Ramblas, through the "intestinal windings" of the ancient Gothic Quarter, past the bountiful Boqueria market to the Eixample, showcase of the daring, mannered architecture of Catalan modernisme, before resting at Gaudí's celebrated Sagrada Famìlia: crazy, unfinished symbol of this fiercely independent city of extremes.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Robert Hughes (1938-2012), art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American college Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of, among other books, The Shock of the New, Nothing if Not Critical, Culture of Complaint and American Visions, hugely popular on both sides of the Atlantic from the accompanying television series. He is also author of the international bestseller The Fatal Shore, a history of the Australian convict settlements, which won three prestigious prizes and has recently been made into a television series. His most recent work is an autobiographical memoir about fishing, A Jerk on One End.

Preis: CHF 24.90
Sprache: Englisch
Art: Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 2001 (1992)
Verlag: Harvill
ISBN: 978-1-86046-824-7
Masse: 663 S.

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