Barcelona and modernity - William H. Robinson

A major new study of the artists and events surrounding the epochal Catalonian modern art movement.

During the years after the September Revolution of 1868, Barcelona experienced tremendous industrial growth and emerged as the most politically and culturally progressive city in Spain. Barcelona and Modernity examines this remarkable seventy-one-year period, when Barcelona also reigned as one of the most dynamic centers of modernist art and architecture in Europe. Focusing on the Catalan Renaixena, Modernisme, Noucentisme, avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, and artistic reactions to the Spanish Civil War, essays by an extraordinary international team of scholars offer new insights into the work of such Catalan artists as Antoni Gaud, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mir, and Salvador Dal, among others, by setting them in context with the art of their teachers, colleagues, and rivals.