Barcelona (Magill’s Literary Annual 1993)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Hughes
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 228 -1990’s
- Setting: Barcelona, Spain
- Principal Characters: Guifre el Pelos (Wilfred the Hairy), Ramon Llull, Ruis i Taulet, Antoni GaudÍ, Lluis Doménech i Montaner
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, History
- Subjects: Culture, Politics, Colonies or colonization, Social issues, Art or artists, Religion, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Economic conditions, Spain or Spanish people, Industrialization
- Locales: Barcelona, Spain
Robert Hughes’s Barcelona, a study of two thousand years of that city’s history aimed at a general audience, gives considerable information about the city’s physical, political, religious, artistic, and social development while supplying essential historical narrative necessary for an understanding of Barcelona’s unique presence and allure. Hughes, however, makes it known early in the book that this is neither an in-depth nor a scholarly assessment of Catalunya’s principal city, operating rather as a general introduction with a heavy emphasis on the painters,...
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