Word: guernica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everywhere. Three cups of coffee hadn't done much for the head. Still bleary-eyed, still in a fog, still feeling the pitchers of beer from the night before. Groping my way down Broadway, wondering why the hell I was heading to the Museum of Modern Art to see Guernica and the rest for the hundredth time...
...mystery." Photography isolates: it cannot narrate. "Strictly speaking, one never understands anything from a photograph .. . Only that which narrates can make us understand." Here, one may feel. Sontag exaggerates too sweepingly. If only narration gives cognition, every static visual image, from the bulls of Lascaux to the horse in Guernica, is condemned, by implication, to muteness. Goya's Third of May is an instant that epitomizes a massacre, not a narrative of the whole event. It shares that with photography, but who could say it does not enlarge our understanding of what it meant to be in a ravaged...
Spiritual Center. No one is more outspoken on the subject than Joseba Elosegi, a former captain in the Basque army. His machine-gun company from the Saseta Battalion was recuperating in Guernica when the bombers came. "Guernica's significance does not lie in its stones," he says. "You can change those. What you cannot change is its legend, its face as a spiritual center for the Basques...
...mineral-water bottle filled with pure alcohol into the San Sebastian fronton, where Franco was attending an international jai alai tournament. Elosegi doused himself with alcohol, set it afire, and jumped into the arena from the second balcony, shouting, "Cora Euzkadi Askatuta!" (long live the free Basque country) and "Guernica, Guernica...
...wanted to bring the fire of Guernica to the one who had provoked it," he explains. "I wanted to give him a fiery abrazo." Elosegi missed his target and paid for his act with 17 days in a coma and 30 months in jail. One of the organizers of the anniversary remembrances, he is calmer today about the raid but no less committed. "Guernica was an obsession with me," he says. It is an obsession shared by hundreds of Guernica's inhabitants and countless other Spaniards as well...