by Robert Hughes · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860468247
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Barcelona is a modern homage to a proud, cosmopolitan city where Gaudí, Picasso and Miró learned how to break all the rules. Before Spain, there was Catalonia, a thriving maritime empire with its own language and Barcelona as its capital, the 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 Familia: crazy, unfinished symbol of this fiercely independent city of extremes.
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes was an Australian art critic, writer and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world".
