by Richard Klein · Tabapress. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788479521417
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«Los cigarrillos son sublimes» is Richard Klein's cultural essay, published by Tabapress in hardback (230 pages, in Spanish).
Richard Klein analyses the fascination and aversion that the cigarette has aroused in modern culture: an object charged with pleasure, rebellion and status, but also with moral condemnation. Through literature, philosophy and history, the author unravels the symbolic meanings of tobacco and the contradictions of its presence in art and everyday life.
Work originally published in English as Cigarettes Are Sublime; the Spanish translation is by Catalina Martínez.
Essay aimed at readers of cultural criticism, philosophy and history, as well as those who analyse the representation of tobacco in the arts.
Richard Klein was a German artist, known for his work as a medallist from the start of World War I in 1914, and mainly for his work as a favoured artist of the Nazi regime. Klein was director of the Munich School of Applied Arts and was one of Adolf Hitler's favourite painters.
