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...traveling companion, Mak cuts a charming figure. But his portrait of the last century is almost unremittingly dark. The mayor's scythe sweeps through the book as Mak tours Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, Dresden, Chernobyl, Sarajevo. With an itinerary like that, there are predictably few joyful moments to be had. The book is filled instead with a sort of dreadful comedy that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors...
...last century.“The Spanish Civil War is typically understood as a prelude or rehearsal to World War II,” Epps says.Furthermore, the war inspired countless works of art that are still valued today. The atrocity of the large scale bombing of the city of Guernica, which resulted in immense loss of life in 1937, led to the creation one of the best-known works of art of the 20th century. “[The bombing] is what sparked Picasso’s ‘Guernica,’ which is without question the most...
...Oscar-nominated “Children of Men,” which takes place in a dystopian world 20 years into the future. During a visit to a gallery he owns—and which is now, in 2027, home to Picasso’s “Guernica,” the artist’s 1937 protest against fascism and political violence—Owen’s cousin responds, “I just don’t think about it.” Ignoring the realities of the world depicted in “Children...
...eastern stretch of the Vasari mural, behind which, he asserts, lies the masterpiece. Having looked at sketches and copies of Anghiari, I strain to tap into an inner X-ray to see through the mural to the Leonardo behind. The original, a Renaissance forebear of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, was described by Italian writer Anton Francesco Doni as a "miraculous" rendering of the ravages of war. The battle depicted was a key victory of the Florentine Republic, which may help explain why Vasari was asked to paint over it by his Medici patrons, who were enemies of the Republic...
...that I can say is that I don’t like Guernica at all, although I helped [Pablo Picasso] hang the painting,” he writes. “Recently, I discovered that Alberti, and Jose Bergamin share my opinion. All three of us would like to put a bomb under Guernica, but we are too old now for such things...